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As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on...

Robert Zubrin
As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on oil, and we controlled the supply.

In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.

Chris DiCroce Burning Man
In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

Wouter Van Gastel
War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

Anthony Liccione
Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Siegfried Sassoon
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of...
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

It was the fact that I didn't want to kill anyone. I wasn't put on this earth to murder my fellow man. I'd grown up with violence - can't you see that? I can't bear it.

John Boyne Stay Where You...

Civilians seldom understand that soldiers, once impressed into war, will forever take it for the ordinary state of the world, with all else illusion. The former soldier assumes that when time weakens...

Mark Helprin A Soldier of the...

Don't worry about me, no matter what happens. We're nervous here, but not afraid. We have all looked into our souls, one way or another, and are content to die if need be. The only thing left to say...

Mark Helprin A Soldier of the...

We are not one of those who flatter war; When the opportunity arises, we tell him his truths. The war has awful beauties that we have not hidden; She also agreed, some ugly. One of the most surprising...

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

An army is a strange masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,...

William Shakespeare Henry V

But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd-His glassy essence-like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels...

William Shakespeare Measure for...

Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that...

Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian,...

I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you don't wake up forever.

Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian,...

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian,...

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade...

Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian,...

About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letters the men had received in several weeks, and for a night it relieved the changeless pattern of their...

Norman Mailer The Naked and...

Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.

Norman Mailer The Naked and...

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

Sam Shepard True West

Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of...

Iain M. Banks Use of Weapons

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre The devil and...

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.{King Pelles the Sure}

Peter S. Beagle We Never Talk...

Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat...

Diana Gabaldon The Scottish...

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

Charles Frazier Cold Mountain

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter. I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't...

Charles Frazier Cold Mountain

There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily....

M.M. Kaye Shadow of the...

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Haruki Murakami Kafka on the...

When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the...

Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud...

Why is your equation only for angels, Roger? Why can't we do something, down here? Couldn't there be an equation for us too, something to help us find a safer place?' 'Why am I surrounded,' his usual...

Thomas Pynchon Gravity's...
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