War Quotes

Ella wheeler wilcox - to sin by silence when we should protest makes...
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay
Benjamin franklin - there never was a good war, or a bad peace....
As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.
Dave Barry
The idea of all - Out nuclear war is unsettling.
Walter Goodman
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.
Abraham Lincoln
Caskie stinnett, out of the red (1960) - a diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go...
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
Karl Kraus
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
Dr. Thomas Dooley
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
Chinese Prove
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.
Anonymous
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
Anonymous
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
Gerald R. Ford
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.
Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
Laurens Van der Post
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
Lewis S Feue
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
David Pratt
War will cease when men refuse to fight.
F. Hansen
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andr Gide
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.
Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
Hartley Coleridge
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
Mae West
Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaus J. Lec
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.
Cosino DeGregrio