Lindsey Graham Quotes

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

War is too strange to process alone.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

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

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

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

A hospital alone shows what war is.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.