Prisoner Of War Quotes

• A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

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• Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.

  John Yoo

  War, Rights, Decision

  "Terrorists Have No Geneva Rights" by John Yoo, www.wsj.com. May 26, 2004.

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• Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

  Akshay Kumar

  War, Years, People

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• The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

  Gideon Raff

  War, Prisoner

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• Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Appreciation, War, Book

  Laura Hillenbrand (2014). “Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive”, p.299, Delacorte Press

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• I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Life, Memories, War

  Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.272, Random House

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• The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Feet, Soldier

  Note signed by Tojo, left at a camp during the Bataan Death March, June 1945.

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• We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

  James C. Collins

  War, Book, Greatness

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• I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

  Jessica Lynch

  Jobs, War, Book

  "Jessica Lynch: One Iraq war veteran's unique perspective" by Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2011.

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• The closest thing I could think of that men go through is like a prisoner of war being tortured, and then coming back from that experience. It's traumatic and grounding and makes you commit to the world. Also, because you want all of these things for your kid.

  Larkin Grimm

  War, Kids, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Order, Law

  Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation... It does not matter.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Home, Reality

  "CNN Newsroom" with Christian Paul and Victor Blackwell, edition.cnn.com. June 7, 2014.

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• Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  War, Rocks, Two

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• I'm happy that now we reveal something about the true Israel, because, you know, now it's Purim, when all the Jews putting mask. And once, we used to have a liberal mask. The most famous mask now in Israel is the mask of a soldier who murdered in cold blood a wounded prisoner of war. Those are the mask that most of the Israeli kids now are using. So, now, when the mask and the true is the same, maybe it's time for Democrats here to stop supporting Israel, if they care about Jews.

  Udi Aloni

  War, Kids, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured, she didn't want to be there, she was unhappy, she was banging away in the kitchen, the way that a prisoner would bang on her jail cell, you know, really unhappy. She had to cook for nine people with really little money, so she really just got burned out. So I didn't know that you could actually cook and it would be calming, pleasurable.

  Sandra Cisneros

  War, Cells, Jail

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Organization

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• John McCain was a prisoner of war.

  Fred Thompson

  War, Prisoner, Mccain

  2008 Republican National Convention Address, Delivered 2 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.

  Yanar Mohammed

  War, Government, Guarantees

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

  Janis Karpinski

  Military, War, Home

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• If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Storm, May

  Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411

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• I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war.

  Eric Holder

  War, Thinking, Als

  "American Morning" with Paula Zahn, transcripts.cnn.com. January 28, 2002.

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• Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!

  David Suchet

  War, Army, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.

  Padgett Powell

  War, Phones, Texting

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

  Tony Blair

  War, Thug, Reality

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• Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horrendous blunders when he was president. He once said that the Vichy legislation against Jews affected only foreign Jews, which was, of course, absolutely wrong. So he obviously wasn't too well-informed about what is going on in the Vichy government.

  Robert O. Paxton

  War, Agency, Government

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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