War Deaths Quotes

Robert E. Lee was responsible for the deaths of more American soldiers than Hitler and Tojo.

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.

More than a million Americans have died in our wars—each one much loved by someone.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

The thousands of men who had died in the civil wars had given their lives to little discernable effect.

I’ve been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. [WWI]

Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?

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.

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

Remembering the loss of those Irishmen from all parts of the island who were sent to their deaths in the imperialist slaughter of the First World War is crucial to understanding our history. It is also important to recognise the special significance in which the Battle of the Somme and the First World War is held.

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

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

Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.