War Quotes
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.Martin Luther King Jr.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.Saint Augustine
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Helen Kelle
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.Dwight D Eisenhowe
War will cease when men refuse to fight.F. Hansen
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.Margaret of Valois
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.Margaret Mead
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.Cardinal Richelieu
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.Sun - Tzu
Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.Kahlil Gibran
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
Endless money forms the sinews of war.Cicero, Philippics
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.Albert Einstein
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.J. R. R. Tolkien
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.Carl Sandburg
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.Mark Twain
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.Albert Camus
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
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.Don Delillo
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.Woodrow Wilson
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
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
