Lois Frankel Quotes

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

It’s very easy to advocate going to war if you’re not one of the people who is going.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

It will plow under every fourth American boy.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

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

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damned near killed the country.

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

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

Nobody wants to go to war, but the burden of service cannot fall only on volunteers who, are attracted to the military for financial reasons.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

... deployed on the sands of Saudi Arabia and facing possible extinction, are young men and women drawn, in the main, from the poorer families of our republic.

We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers..

We often fight wars with our young.

You know, I had gone to war.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.