War Quotes

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.
John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
Sir winston churchill, speech in the house of commons, november 29, 1944 - a love of tradition has never weakened a nation,...
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Robert Anson Heinlein
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
Patricia Moyes
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
Dinesh D? Souza
So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein
Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou En Lai
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
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
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
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
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.
Kahlil Gibran
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Clark Hoove
Herbert hoove - my country owes me nothing. it gave me, as it...
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
War does not determine who is right - Only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Margaret of Valois
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
Francis Bacon
I cherish the Franco - German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post - war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.
Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, President, ELDR 1995 - 2000, Foreign Minister 1982 - 1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andr Gide
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
The journey is the reward.
Taoist Saying
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson