Elmer Davis Quotes

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?

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

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

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

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its efforts that their utterance will not be endured.

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

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

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

When you're at war you do what it takes to win.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

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.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.