War Quotes

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Kit Carson

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

To grow old is to grow common. 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.

Eric Hoffe

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Henry Kissinge

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)

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

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen S. Wise

The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

Brian Wilson

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

Alford

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

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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

Seneca

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.

Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero, Philippics

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

Terry Goodkind

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.

Saint Francis Xavie

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush