George W. Bush Quotes

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

One mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives.

War is never cheap or easy.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

Every day, more and more of our young men are shipped to Vietnam and forced to fight under conditions carefully contrived to ensure the maximum loss of American life and to ensure eventual defeat.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

The question in my mind then is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

The sad reality of war is that if you are going to be in day-to-day combat, there are going to be casualties.

It’s very hard really to look a soldier in the eye when you fear that you are sending him to his death.

My message was one of death for young men. How odd it is to applaud that.

We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers..

The real heroes of WWII never came home.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

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

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.