Quotes about War Situation

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I’ve fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

The Congress did not believe that there would be war. Six weeks later Germany invaded Poland.

George Orwell

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.

Dolley Madison

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

William C. Bullitt

It may be that at a given moment I, as the only representative of the Diplomatic Corps remaining in Paris, will be obliged in the interests of public safety to take control of the city pending arrival of the German army. I shall do my best to save as many lives as possible and to keep the flag flying…. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your friendship in case I get blown up before I see you again. [Meanwhile,] Here I am. Here I stay.

A few days before the Germans had bombed a few places around Paris. The French President and high officials after stating that they would defend the city against the Nazis ran out of town to the South. Then the city officials all ran including most of the police officers. All the foreign diplomats followed except for Ambassador Bullitt, a close personal friend of President Roosevelt. When he sent this cable, he and his staff had 2 revolvers and 40 bullets and asked FDR to send him some sub-machine guns to help him maintain order in the city. When the Germans arrived, there was not a single Frenchman who tried to stop them. The French Army had already run from the Battlefield outside of Paris. It is this dreadful, cowardly showing of the French which plagued De Gaulle and other French Patriots for years causing a great exaggeration of the extent of the French Resistance which was indeed heroic but only involved few Frenchmen and women. Fortunately, there was almost no looting of civil breakdown and the Germans arrived and took over. Bullitt never had to use his “armaments”.

Vic Morrow

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

Franz Halder

Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.

Hirohito

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

George C. Marshall

There is no group today in America who view the possibilities of war with more horror, and consider the large appropriations involved with more reluctance than do the officers of the General Staff. There is no thought in our minds to seize upon the dilemma of this tragic world situation as an opportunity to aggrandize the Army.

Then Chief of Staff of the Army, he was asking for a large military appropriation.

Dick Cheney

I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

Margaret Warner

The fall of Eastern Aleppo marks a watershed in the five-year Syrian civil war. Opposition forces first took part of the city in 2012.

Mohsin Hamid

think that the external situation has also changed somewhat. The reduction of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has, in a sense, reduced how inflamed the situation on the Pakistani border regions was and is.

Alan Alda

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.

John Buford

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

War Situation Quotes