War Quotes

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Rudyard kipling - often and often afterwards, the beloved aunt...
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Cicero
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Johann von Goethe
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von Clausewitz
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
General George Patton
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
Eric Nicol
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.
Herbert Clark Hoove
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.
Dave Barry
Author unknown - create the kind of climate in your organization...
My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.
William H. McNeill
Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.
Jeff Herman
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Prince Otto
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri
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
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
Jerry Coleman
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
Chief Seattle
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.
Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - Into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
E. H. Chapin
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The longest journey is the journey inward.
Dag Hammarskjold
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George Patton
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - Nay are dragged - Towards evil.
Hippocrates, Decorum
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte