Quotes on Going To War

I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.

What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.