War Quotes

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
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
Ferdinand foch - none but a coward dares to boast that he has...
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von Clausewitz
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
Frances Rodman
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
Otto von bismarck, bismarck and the german empire by erich eyck - beware of sentimental alliances where the...
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
David viscott - the worst thing one can do is not to try, to be...
This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
John McCain
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Wlters
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.
Charles Kingsley
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.
Loren
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 1954.
Enlai Zhou
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
May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand.
Unknown
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
Horace
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
Author Unknown
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.
Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
Unknown
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fulle
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant