War Quotes

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

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Kahlil Gibran

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Carlos Castaneda

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestle

Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war - For - Profit group has counterfeited patriotism.

Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

General George Catlett Marshall

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Hellen Kelle

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man.

Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Zigla

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Confucius

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

Gary Lee Phillips

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George Stanley McGovern

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.

Arnold Glasgow

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

George S. Patton

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

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Titus Livius