War Quotes

Robert e. lee - it is well that war is so terrible, or we should...
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov
Chinese - the best soldiers are not warlike....
Donella meadows, the global citizen - your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental...
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Seneca
War is based on deception.
Sun - Tzu
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
Eric Nicol
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoove
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13: 2
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.
David Armistead
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.
Eliza Mother Stewart
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
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - Especially their lives.
Eugene V. Debs
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
George Will
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Quentin Crisp
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - Never knowing.
David Viscott
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.
Russell G. Alexande
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
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
John Burroughs
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
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
St. Francis Xavie
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20