Conflict History Quotes

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the state of Israel, for example, based on ethnic cleansing is there for us all to discuss.

Iran is a nation with American blood on its hands.

He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

Before embarking upon their great Western offensive, or indeed upon the war, the Germans should have pondered the fact that throughout history, swift outcomes of conflicts between approximate equals have been rarities.

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.

We've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places. And for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940's, and I think it's tragic.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

No, but the Germans have been to France twice in my lifetime.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story.

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.