War Quotes

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck

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

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Joe Moore

Beware the ides of March.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

Robert Ingersoll

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

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

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Henry Louis Mencken

Economics is war pursued by other means.

Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Jerry Coleman

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Mary Lorraine Buckley

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

J. B. Priestley

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

John Maynard Keynes

An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Baroness Orczy

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Elbert Hubbard

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.

Eido Tai Shimano Roshi

He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down