War Quotes
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
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.Native American Prove
Economics is war pursued by other means.Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.Thomas Jefferson
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.Kristen Ashley Roth
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.Charles Manson
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.Oprah Winfrey
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.Milton Friedman
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.Henry Kissinge
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.Lyndon B. Johnson
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Thomas Fulle
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.Elbert Hubbard
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.Aristotle
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.James R. Lowell
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....Ben Stein
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
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.Phillips Brooks
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.Thomason
Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.William F. Claire
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?Hermocrates of Syracuse
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of civilized warfare.Author Unknown
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.Terry Goodkind