But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their... →
Joseph Heller
I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits... →
Mark Helprin
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start... →
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent... →
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your... →
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very... →
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.