War Quotes

Pat robertson, when asked the question
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prathe
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.
Y. Yakigawa
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Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
G. Hoppe
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Gerald R. Ford
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Colton
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato, The Republic
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
La Fontaine
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
Plato
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
Hermocrates of Syracuse
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
Otto Von Bismarck
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Dr. Jonas Salk
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster, as a small child
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
Philip Saltie
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.
Marquis de Sade
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
Gerald R. Ford
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
General Smedley Butle
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.
Thomason
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
Dr. Thomas Dooley
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.
Arthur Koestle
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
Thomas S. Szasz
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.
Eda LeShan