D. W. Griffith Quotes

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

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

History has been the history of warfare.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

There will be plenty of fighting in the coming years and in a magnitude far beyond this. Prepare yourself.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

I like war.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

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.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

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

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.