War Quotes

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
George orwell, book
Machiavelli - it must be considered that there is nothing more...
It sure does, Ben, it definitely does... this is definite... it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...
Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
Unknown - bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of...
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Jane Harrison
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
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Woodrow Wilson
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.
Leonardo DaVinci
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire
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
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
Margaret Mead
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.
Thomason
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Desiderius Erasmus
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Eric Hoffe
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Ricthe
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato, The Republic
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
David Weatherford
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
Chief Seattle
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
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestle
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Cicero
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.
Arnold Glasgow
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri