War Drums Quotes

On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!