I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
— William Westmoreland
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
— William Slim
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
— William S. Burroughs
It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.
— William O'Neill
I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.
— William Odom
But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
— William McKinley
If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
War is at its best barbarism.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
War is hell.
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.
— William Safire
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
— William Petty
Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government.
— William M. Daley
On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.
Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.
— William T. Vollmann
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
We seek no wider war.
— William P. Bundy
In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.
I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political.
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.
