War Quotes

In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.

General Douglas MacArthu

May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

M. R. Vincent

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

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Stephen S. Wise

Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.

Antigonus of Sokho

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

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

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

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

Cosino DeGregrio

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Margaret Mead

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.

Oscar Wilde

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".

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

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Prove

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurbe

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

E. Kim Nebeuts

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Charles Manson

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andr Gide

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

General Smedley Butle

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Dame Rebecca West

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

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

Anonymous

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

Rene Descartes

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John Maynard Keynes

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoove

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

John Knowles

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

John Anthony Ciardi

Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.

Henry Seely

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

William S. Gilbert