Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions. . . It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.
I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker who not only illuminates war for civilians, but also offers a kind of spiritual guidance to vets themselves. As this generation of warriors comes home, they will be enormously helped by what Marlantes has written. I’m sure he will literally save lives.
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.
The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.
Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world's condition, flying is their life.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.
The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.