War Quotes

Miguel cerbantes - love and war are the same thing, and stratagems...
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Franklin delano roosevelt - the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a...
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - Never knowing.
David Viscott
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
William Shakespeare
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley
Dwight d. eisenhowe - every gun that is made, every warship launched,...
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.
Francois Fenelon
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Muriel Spark
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
Edwin P. Whipple
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.
Arnold Glasgow
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
Emma Goldman
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.
Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James Barrie
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
G. C. Lichtenberg
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
George Stanley McGovern
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Bokonon
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire