War Quotes

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barbe

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham".

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

Patricia Russell - McCloud

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - Especially their lives.

Eugene V. Debs

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Masterlinck

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

Benjamin Franklin

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Albert Einstein

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Woodrow Wilson

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whatley

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

Gerald R. Ford

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Wlters

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Ricthe

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

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

Francis A. Carte

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurbe

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

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

Helen Kelle

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James R. Lowell

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

I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

George Washington

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

Molly Wiest

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

Oscar Wilde

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

Ausonius

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Hellen Kelle

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Ted Morgan

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

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

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

G. Hoppe