I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I’d never tip my hand to the other side. – Stephen Bannon
The bones of the story of ‘War Horse’ is a love story. That’s what makes it universal. – Steven Spielberg
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things. – Stefan Sagmeister
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared. – Seth Grahame-Smith
We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment. – Stafford Cripps
An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours. – Theodor Mommsen
In the culture at large, the war over science fiction’s creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality. – Steve Erickson
By the ’50s and ’60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all. – Stephen Hunter
If Lincoln is among history’s truly great men, he didn’t achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln’s destiny. – Steve Erickson
Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring. – Samantha Power
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. – Thucydides
America was probably Europe’s equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II. – Sam Kean
There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs. – Sherrod Brown
‘Dispatches’ is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century and the most brilliant treatment of war and men I have ever read. – Sonny Mehta
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird. – Wagner Moura