War Quotes

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Author Unknown

War is based on deception.

Sun - Tzu

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - Into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

E. H. Chapin

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

Barbara de Angelis

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.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.

William Punshon

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Baroness Orczy

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - Nay are dragged - Towards evil.

Hippocrates, Decorum

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

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

When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.

Swedish Prove

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Orison Swett Marden

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

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

We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Virginia Hanson

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Woodrow Wilson

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Pinda

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun - Tzu

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Joe Moore