War Quotes
To hold a pen is to be at war.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.John Ernst Steinbeck
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.Seneca
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.John Anthony Ciardi
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.E. M. Forster, as a small child
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.Isaiah
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
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
War is like love; it always finds a way.Bertolt Brecht
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.Sextus Julius Frontinus
Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.Lebanese Prove
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.Karl Kraus
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.Gurdjieff
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.Pete Holiday
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.Gerald R. Ford
War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.Mao Tse - Tung
Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.Thomason
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.Robert E. Lee
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
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.Johann Kaspar Lavate
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.John Stewart Mills
From this day forward until the end of the world... we in it shall be remembered... we band of brothers.William Shakespeare, Henry V.
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
In war, truth is the first casualty.Aeschylus
War is based on deception.Sun - Tzu
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
