Oliver North Quotes

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

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

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

I like war.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

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

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

History has been the history of warfare.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

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.