"I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country." ― Chief Joseph Topic(s): War More From Chief Joseph "I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land." "I know that my race must change." "My father… had sharper eyes than the rest of our people." More In War "War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times."― Henry Rollins "If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place."― Brendan Fraser "War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."― Sophocles