War Quotes

John f. kennedy - mankind must put an end to war, or war will put...
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
Corinne roosevelt robinson - nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in...
Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou En Lai
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthu
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
Woody Allen
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Robert Southey
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
Author Unknown
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
Kahlil Gibran
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurbe
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.
Lester Bowles Pearson
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
Donald G. Smith
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.
David Armistead
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
Sir Winston Churchill
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Ronald Reagan
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adle
War is like love; it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht