War Quotes

Robert heinlein - writing is not necessarily something to be...
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.
Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin delano roosevelt - the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a...
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace, Epistles
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
George Orwell, 1984
The longest journey is the journey inward.
Dag Hammarskjold
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.
Glen Cook, Shadow Games
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
Larry Niven
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.
Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
Barbara Paley
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
Titus Livius
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andr Gide
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.
Erasmus
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old - Fashioned.
George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Robyn Davidson
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Margaret of Valois
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
St. Francis Xavie
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.
Cosino DeGregrio
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.
Mel Colgrove
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
William Punshon
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