Ryan Zinke Quotes

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

It will plow under every fourth American boy.

In the Middle East, a nation whose youngsters are not willing to kill and get killed for it is a nation on borrowed time. It will not last long.

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which ... develops patriotism and courage. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul.

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

I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

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

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

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.

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

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

I do not want to lead an army of mercenaries.

You must come into the war if you are to survive.