War Quotes

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

Kabbalah

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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

John Maynard Keynes

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

W. L. George

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen, Emma

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - Nay are dragged - Towards evil.

Hippocrates, Decorum

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Herbert Mitgang

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted W. Engstrom

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

Laurens Van der Post

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961

Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.

Mel Colgrove

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

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

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Queen Elizabeth

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.

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

Faith Whittlesey

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus

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

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Unknown

There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

C. A. R. Hoare