War Quotes

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig
General george patton - no poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his...
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
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
Ausonius
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
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.
Charles Manson
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.
Euripides
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
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
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
Just think - - IBM and DEC in the same room - - And we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.
Ken Thompson
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey
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
Seneca - let tears flow of their own accord their flowing...
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
Thomas Huxley
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
George Will
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
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
Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.
Don DeLillo
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
Kim Hubbard
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
William Shakespeare
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Pinda
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson
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
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