top of page
Quote_1.png
Don Young

"I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort."

Standard 
 Customized
"I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort."

Exlpore more War quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac."

War,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

War,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

Explore more quotes by Don Young

Quote_1.png
Don Young
"There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold."
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing."
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do."
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it."
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?"
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault."
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act."
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic."
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice."
Quote_1.png
Don Young
"You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs."
bottom of page