War Quotes
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.Maurice Masterlinck
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.William Punshon
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.R. A. Lafferty
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.Norman Vincent Peale
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
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.J. Donald Wlters
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
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.Aristotle
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I cherish the Franco - German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post - war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, President, ELDR 1995 - 2000, Foreign Minister 1982 - 1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.Ursula K. LeGuin
Jean Grey Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single - Celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.X2 X - Men United
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.Brian Tracy
The best way to end a war is not to begin it.Author Unknown
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.South
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.James Barrie
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.John Ernst Steinbeck
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
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.Jonathan Swift
