War Quotes

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

Lewis S Feue

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Michael J. Gel

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

St. Francis Xavie

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Gary Lee Phillips

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Chief Seattle

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Milton Friedman

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

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

Hugh Elliott

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.

Swedish Prove

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Dr. Jonas Salk

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Kahlil Gibran

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Dame Rebecca West

The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.

Lester Bowles Pearson

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

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)

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spence

Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.

J. Petit - Senn

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beeche

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.

H. L. Mencken