Eamon de Valera Quotes

War is the province of danger.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

War is the science of destruction.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

War is about dead people.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Killing is the payoff of war.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

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

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

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

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Wars ruin armies.

War is no damn football game.

The sad reality of war is that if you are going to be in day-to-day combat, there are going to be casualties.