War Quotes

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Richard Willard Armou

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Garry Wills

Economics is war pursued by other means.

Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

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

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

Irish Blessing

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

Brian Wilson

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.

Johnson

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155

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

The U. S. victory in Gulf war was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

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

Woodrow Wilson

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero, Philippics

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Zigla

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

So long as there are men there will be wars.

Albert Einstein

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

William S. Gilbert

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 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