Allen West Quotes

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

I think war is a dangerous place.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

History has been the history of warfare.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.