Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
As to war I am and always was a great enemy at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism we can't control them.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
In the months leading up to World War II there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
Make no mistake adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
We women are constantly at war with our bodies it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
War consisteth not in battle only or the act of fighting but in a tract of time wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
When you go to war both sides lose totally.
