War Quotes
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.Arnold Toynbee
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.Albert Einstein
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.Horace Smith
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.James Russell Lowell
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.Stephen Ambrose
Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.French Prove
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.Dorthea Bragg
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - No alternative.Golda Mei
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.Jim Rohn
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.Hal Borland
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.Philip Saltie
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
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.Woody Allen
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
War is like love it always finds a way.Bertolt Brecht
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
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.John Ernst Steinbeck
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.Solomon Short
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.Gilbert Chesterton
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.Jefferson Davis
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.Russell G. Alexande
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
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 antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.Croesus of Lydia
