As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
John M. McHugh

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.
Joseph Rotblat

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.
Sadie Frost

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
Bruce Jackson

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
Harry Dean Stanton

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
Nick Rahall

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
Richard Perle

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Daniel Pipes

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
James Madison

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Anne Sexton

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.
Michael I. Rostovtzeff

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
Owen Arthur

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Allen Ginsberg

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
John Hoeven

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.
Francis Ford Coppola

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.
John Dykstra