War Quotes

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.

Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible

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

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

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Beware the ides of March.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spence

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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

Dame Rebecca West

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.

C. Lee Hopkin

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

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

Homer, The Iliad

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.

Marilyn King

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Johann von Goethe

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Cicero

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

General George Patton

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Anatol Rapoport

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Oscar Wilde

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

Francis A. Carte

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

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

It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.

Jacobi

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Henry Kissinge