War Quotes
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.Jacques Maritain
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.Geoffrey F. Albert
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.Jane Austen, Emma
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.Ely Gulbertson
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.Home
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.Jeannette Rankin
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.Henry Louis Mencken
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.Andr Gide
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over - Concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.Halford E. Luccock
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.Hugh Prathe
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas Huxley
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.Henry David Thoreau
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.Benjamin Franklin
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.Margaret Mead
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.Woodrow Wilson
We make war that we may live in peace.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.E. Kim Nebeuts
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.Albert Einstein
Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
