Harvey Fierstein Quotes

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Politicians didn’t want to talk to their constituents about body bags that would be coming back.

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

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.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

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

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.