War Quotes
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....Ben Stein
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.Thomas Jefferson
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.Herbert Hoove
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.Voltaire
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.Henry Van Dyke
Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.Jeff Herman
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.Arthur Koestle
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.Theodore Roosevelt
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.Charles Kingsley
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.Albert Camus
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.George S. Patton
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.Robert Martin Fuoss
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.Walter Bagehot
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.Geoffrey F. Albert
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
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.Herbert Hoove
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.J. R. R. Tolkien
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well - Housed, well - warmed, and well - Fed.Herman Melville
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.Orison Swett Marden
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.Ausonius
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.Shakti Gawain
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.Glen Cook, Shadow Games
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
