War Quotes

There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.

Walker Percy

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

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

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Jimmy Buffett

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

George W. Bush

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Franoise Mallet - Joris

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non - Conformist.

Ayn Rand

Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.

Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

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

James Russell Lowell

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.

Lester Bowles Pearson

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

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

Enoch Powell

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

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

Mary Lorraine Buckley

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffle

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)

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

Paulo Coelho, Brida

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

W. L. George

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

The journey is the reward.

Taoist Saying

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

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

Elbert Hubbard

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang - Tzu

If we fight a war and win it with H - Bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

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

Anonymous