Battle Quotes: Quotes about Korean War

President Harry S. Truman

"He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us [by the North Korean army]. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time."

"In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak….Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores."

The official of President Harry S. Truman

"General Bradley said that we must draw the line [against Communist expansion] somewhere. The President stated he agreed on that. General Bradley said that Russia is not yet ready for war. The Korean situation offered as good an occasion for action in drawing the line as anywhere else."

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

"I have just received the announcement of your appointment of me as the United Nations Commander of the international forces to be employed in Korea and can not fail to express to you personally my deepest thanks and appreciation for this new expression of your confidence. I recall so vividly and with such gratitude that this is the second time you have so signally honored me. Your personal choice five years ago as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan place me under an intimate obligation which would be difficult for me to ever repay and you have now added to my debt. I can only repeat the pledge of my complete personal loyalty to you as well as an absolute devotion to your monumental struggle for peace and good will throughout the world. I hope I will not fail you."

"I will defend Korea as I would my own country—just as I would California."

Lieutenant Colonel George Russell

"On the other side of every mountain [was] another mountain."

Edwin W. Pauley

"Communism in Korea could get off to a better start than practically anywhere else in the world."

Political Quotes by Rick Yune

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.

I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people.

I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.

To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

Political Quotes by Kim Jon Il

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

Great ideology creates great times.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

Political Quotes by Kim Dae Jung

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

Political Quotes by Kim Y. Sam

All of North Korea is a jail.

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.