War Resources Quotes

This country is already, in effect, an arsenal for the democratic Allies

There has never been a military commander in history who didn’t want more men for a longer time …

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

The children of the world, what they want and what they need are health clinics and schools, not tanks or armed helicopters or fighter jets.

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

There are no straight line projections of cost in a war.

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

I'd...bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.

The seditious Bolivar has occupied Santa Fe, and the fateful result of that battle has placed at his disposition the whole kingdom and the immense resources of a very populated country, rich and abundant from which he will plunder what he needs to continue the war in these provinces because the insurgents have no rules or inhibitions

The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

Can I just finish the 2 wars we’re in before you go on to another.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.