Horace Greeley Quotes

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

Americans know that war must be paid for and it is they who must pay for it.

It’s very easy to advocate going to war if you’re not one of the people who is going.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

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

Any great war must be a popular movement.

It will plow under every fourth American boy.

Wars cost money.

War is the national industry of Germany [Prussia].

Americans will stomach long wars only when the nation’s survival is clearly at stake.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.