War Quotes - Page 12

• You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Body, Kind

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• All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Firsts

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• Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Light, Honor, Generations

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hands, Issues, Mines

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

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• You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Preparation, Preparing For War

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• War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

  Beilby Porteus

  Peace, Ten

  'Death' (1759) l. 179

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• Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

  George S. Patton

  Home, Want, Way

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

  Robert Browning

  Peace, Justice, Wells

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.71

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• I war not with the dead.

  Homer

  Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.168

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• Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Want, Murder, Flats

  'The Biglow Papers' (First Series, 1848) no. 1 'A Letter'

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• We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

  James Russell Lowell

  Kind, Christ

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.191

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• My sentence is for open war.

  John Milton

  Sentences

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 51

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• It is magnificent, but it is not war.

  Pierre Bosquet

  History, Classic, Magnificent

  Quoted in Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why (1953)

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• I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Funny, Missing, Society

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• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Lost Youth, Quiet, Western Movie

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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• We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Blood, Challenges, Alternatives

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's speech to Egypt's National Assembly in Cairo (November 6, 1969) as quoted in The Washington Post (p. 1), November 7, 1969.

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• What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

  John Milton

  Boots, Defence, Foe

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 558

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• Ancestral voices prophesying war.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Voice, Prophecy

  "Kubla Khan" l. 29 (1816)

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• Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fire, Essentials, Infantry

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• Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

  Walter Cronkite

  Law, World Government, Dreamer

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Agony, Glory, Young

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

  Tobias Smollett

  Shots, One Time, Dies

  Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson (1820). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: The adventures of Peregrine Pickle, pt. 2. Plays and poems”, p.495

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• Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

  Robert Ardrey

  Peace, Successful, Tradition

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• Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
  Leave in its track the toiling plough;
  The rifle and the bayonet-blade
  For arms like yours were fitter now;
  And let the hands that ply the pen
  Quit the light task, and learn to wield
  The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
  The charger on the battle-field.

  William C. Bryant

  Light, Hands, Track

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• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

  John Stuart Mill

  Military, Patriotic, Thinking

  "The Contest in America", Fraser's Magazine, February 1862.

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