War Of The Worlds Quotes - Page 31

• It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, War, Enemy

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• A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.

  Paul Tibbets

  War, Airplane, Cities

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• Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!

  William Halsey

  War, World, World War 2

  "Wartime". Book by Paul Fussell, 1990.

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• Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, World, Praying

  Opening and Closing Statements at the Japanese Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Please Me, Giving

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• We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, World, Underestimate

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• Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Thinking

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through."

  Ayn Rand

  Children, War, Feet

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.95, Penguin

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• Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

  Van Jones

  War, Levels, World

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and the great depression put together. All countries will be affected, but the poorest countries will be hit hardest. Secondly, the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of action.

  David Miliband

  Country, War, Two Worlds

  David Miliband on Climate Change during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 30, 2006.

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• Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

  Nicholas Stern

  People, Water, Suffering

  "The Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Legislation: Future Generations Will Thank You" by H. A. Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2014.

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• A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wings, Poetry, Bird

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• In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the time when capitalism really worked. Everywhere in the industrialized countries production increased. Unemployment was everywhere low. Prices were nearly stable. When production lagged and unemployment rose, governments intervened to take up the slack, as Keynes had urged.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Government

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• World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Differences

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• It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.

  Homer Bone

  Death, Country, War

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• American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.

  Colin Ward

  War, America, Would Be

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• In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Korea, Trying

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• The threat of a world war is no more.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, World, Cold

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• A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine and destroy popular movements whenever possible.

  Michael Parenti

  War, Government, United States

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• See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Anniversary, Honesty, War

  "Garrett Hedlund: 'Life is fun when you're in motion'". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, War, Character

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, War, Night

  The Second World War vol. 1 (1948)

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Gratitude, War, Home

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• The next world war will be fought with stones.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Stones, Next

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