Jessica Lynch Quotes

The nature of American society makes it impossible for the U. S. to bear tens of thousands of casualties in one battle.

While everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

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

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

We talk about war in America, we talk about it on an intellectual level. We don’t talk about the sound or smells of war…the pain

You have a lot of support right now, but once you get a lot of casualties, this thing is going to change.

We’ve got to accept that we’re going to lose people in this deal. How many, I don’t know. Could be a lot.

War is never cheap or easy.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

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

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

My message was one of death for young men. How odd it is to applaud that.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.