War Quotes
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.Eda LeShan
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.Adlai Stevenson
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.Charles Manson
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.General George Catlett Marshall
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...Aristophanes
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.Lao - Tzu
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.Jerry Coleman
Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.Herbert Hoove
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.Dante Alighieri
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.Abraham Lincoln
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.Homer, The Iliad
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.Hugh Prathe
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.La Fontaine
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.Richard Milhous Nixon
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.James Barrie
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.Enoch Powell
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.Mahatma Gandhi
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.George Bernard Shaw
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.Robert Burton
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
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.Orson Welles
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started
War is the continuation of politics by other means.General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".
