War Quotes
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
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
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.Homer, The Iliad
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.G. M. Trevelyan
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.Herbert Clark Hoove
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Jane Harrison
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.Earl Nightingale
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
The idea of all - Out nuclear war is unsettling.Walter Goodman
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.Robert Bolt
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.Henry Louis Mencken
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.Mao Tse - Tung
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.Ayn Rand
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.Francois Fenelon
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
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.Kahlil Gibran
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.John Burroughs
War will cease when men refuse to fight.F. Hansen
Just think - - IBM and DEC in the same room - - And we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.Ken Thompson
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.Alexander Haig
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.John Knowles
