War Quotes

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer, The Iliad

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun - Tzu

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Home

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.

Simon MacDonald

The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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

Charles De Gaulle

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carl Rowen

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

Lane Olinghouse

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04

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

J. Petit - Senn

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577

As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Zigla

Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Zhou En Lai

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

Publius Ovidius NasoOvid

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudianus

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.

Ulysses S. Grant

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

Home

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.

Anonymous