Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

When there's a war, people get married.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

I'm glad I never went to war.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.