Bob Hope Quotes

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

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

Destroyer of Villages

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

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

When war begins, then hell openeth.

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

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Wars break things; they break stories.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War remains the decisive human failure.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is hell.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

War! War! War! I fear it will swallow up everything good and useful.

Then comes the catastrophe. Then the great mobilization will take place in Europe; 16-18 million men, the flower of the various nations, armed with the best tools of death, will enter the field as enemies. But, I am convinced, that behind the great mobilization there stands the great havoc. It will not come through our party, but rather yours. You are driving things to the limit. You are leading us to catastrophe. You will reap what you have sown