War Quotes

Stephen ambrose - during the second world war, the germans took...
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
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
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
E. b. white - the time not to become a father is eighteen years...
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
Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
George Orwell, 1984
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.
Richard Milhous Nixon
I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
George Washington
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.
Gary Lee Phillips
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
A. G. Buckham
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
General George Catlett Marshall
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
He grounds the warship he walks on.
John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.
Ely Gulbertson
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Elias Canetti
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Albert Camus
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
Charles Ives
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
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
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
To insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.
Barry Goldwate
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.
Ronald Reagan
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.
Publius Ovidius NasoOvid