War Quotes

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

Robert E. Lee

Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.

J. Petit - Senn

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

La Fontaine

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old - Fashioned.

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Peter Ustinov

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

Matt Groening

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946

The best soldiers are not warlike.

Chinese

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barbe

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

Otto Von Bismarck

The absence of war is not peace.

Harry S Truman

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

Gurdjieff

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Elbert Hubbard

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

John Dryden, Imitation of Horace

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Mark Twain

Economics is war pursued by other means.

Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.

Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.

Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd