William Cullen Bryant Quotes

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is sweet to them that know it not.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

War? War is an organized bore.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War makes early risers of us all.

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

If we have to go to war, we will.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

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 make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

Tank's a fantastic human being, as far as fighting's concerned.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.