War Quotes
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.Sir Winston Churchill
Cowardly dogs bark loudest.John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
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
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
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.Rita Rudne
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.Hellen Kelle
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.Croesus of Lydia
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.Spanish Prove
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.E. B. White
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
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.The Work of the Chariot
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.Euripides
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.Georges Clemenceau
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.Mary Bertone
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.Leonard Brandwein
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.Oprah Winfrey
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.Dr. David M. Burns
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.Eliza Mother Stewart
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
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
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.Pete Holiday
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Robert Southey
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.Henry David Thoreau
