War Quotes

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

John Anthony Ciardi

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Confucius

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Unknown

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.

William Shakespeare

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

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

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Robert Anson Heinlein

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

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

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.

Oscar Wilde

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Emma Goldman

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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

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

Rebecca West

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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, D - Day, page 577

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

The absence of war is not peace.

Harry S Truman

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Miguel de Cervantes

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 1954.

Enlai Zhou

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light