War Quotes
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.Friedrich Von Schlegel
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - - Never knowing.Jim Rohn
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.Donald E. Knuth
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Tom Daschle
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.Georges Clemenceau
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas H. Huxley
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577
He grounds the warship he walks on.John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
The best way to end a war is not to begin it.Author Unknown
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Hebrews 13: 2
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.South
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.George Frost Kennan
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.Mahatma Gandhi
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.Lyndon B. Johnson
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Hemingway
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.Leonard Brandwein
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.A. G. Buckham
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous Huxley
Cowardly dogs bark loudest.John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.Seneca
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.Miyamoto Musashi
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.Milton Friedman
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.Dame Rebecca West
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.Margaret Fulle
Beware the fury of a patient man.John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.Hellen Kelle
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
