Tacitus Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Freedom, War

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

• The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Crime

• So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

  Tacitus

  Memorial Day, Peace, War

  "Agricola". Book by Tacitus, transl. by G. J. Acheson, chapter 4, paragraph 22, final sentence, p. 72, 1938.

• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Empires

• It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
  [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

  Tacitus

  Peace, War

• War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

  Tacitus

  War, Party, Conquest

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.448, Modern Library

• Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

  Tacitus

  War, Shameful

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