Philip Pullman Quotes

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

Our military is meant to fight and win war.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is the science of destruction.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

History has been the history of warfare.

The mission of our military is to fight and win wars.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

I have picked up this vibe that...you’re going to have this massive strike with massed weapons, and basically that’s going to be it, and we just clean up the battlefield after that.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.

War? War is an organized bore.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.