Barney Ross Quotes

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

Prepare against them whatever force you are able to muster, and horses ready for battle, striking fear into God's enemy and your enemy, and others beyond them unknown to you but known to God...

God will so assist us, that if you dare stand but to discharge your pieces, the very smoake will bee sufficient to affright them… They are naked and cowardly ... people, who dare not stand the presenting of a staffe ... or peece, nor an uncharged peece in the hands of a woman.

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.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

Ever since 9/11, I found myself interested in chronicling the war and the war on terror and the way that this giant machinery was affecting individuals.

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

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.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.

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

The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures simply won't suffice. Even with oversight the policies and procedures may not be effective: my access to Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Sun depended upon the willingness of people to bypass policies and procedures that were in place for years before I compromised them successfully.

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

I think war is a dangerous place.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

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

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.