War Quotes
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann von Goethe
To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.Walker Percy
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
The journey is the reward.Taoist Saying
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.Machiavelli
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.Alfred North Whitehead
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.Jane Austen, Emma
The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.Publius Ovidius NasoOvid
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.South
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.Charles W. Chesnutt
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
Beware of the fury of the patient man.John Dryden
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.Seneca
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
In war, there are no unwounded solders.Jose Narosky
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.Vincent Van Gogh
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.General George Catlett Marshall
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
Solutions - The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.Latin
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
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.William Tecumseh Sherman
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
