Anat Cohen Quotes

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

I should not care to live half-frozen in a trench, up to my middle in water, for three or four months, because someone in authority said I ought to shoot Germans. But if I were a Frenchman I should do it, because I would have been accustomed to the idea by my compulsory military service.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Nations have the tendency to be born in blood.

Your King and Country need you.

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

I do not want to lead an army of mercenaries.

We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now at least he will know what he is fighting against.

IT doesn’t matter what’s the cause, What wrong they say we’re righting, A curse for treaties, bonds and laws, When we’re to do the fighting!

To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the ass.

I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.