Michael Winter Quotes

I'm glad I never went to war.

When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

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

I like war.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

People like to talk about war.

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

My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

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

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

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

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

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

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.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.