War Quotes - Page 14

• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, Civilization, Rocks

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• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, Fighting, Loss

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• Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  Peace, Real, Politics

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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• It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Knowledge, Army

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• The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

  Duke of Wellington

  Art, Sides, Hills

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• Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

  Edmund Burke

  Total War

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Edmund Burke, 1790.

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• Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

  George Washington

  Country, Men, Honorable Man

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

  Joseph Addison

  Flow, Fierce, Discord

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, closing lines

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• Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

  Thomas Hood

  Soldier, Battle, Balls

  'Faithless Nelly Gray'

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• Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

  Sun Tzu

  Fate, Enemy, Experts

  "The Art of War". Chapter VI: Weaknesses and Strengths. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Order, Soldier

  Sun Tzu (2002). “The Art of War”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.

  Gerard de Ridefort

  Retreat, Shame, Saladin

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• Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.

  Charles William Chadwick Oman

  Kings, Men, Arms

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• O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Saint, Able

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [101]

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• There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Good Man, Three

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [146]

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• The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Soldier, Gold, Medieval War

  "Should We Spill Blood Over Oil?" by Laurence W. Beilenson, Kevin Lynch, reason.com. February 1982.

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• Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Gun, Evil, Causes

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.66, Xist Publishing

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• And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday; and that Lord died as a consequence, may God absolve him! And you should know that there was at least an acre of land behind the Templars, which was so covered with arrows fired by the Saracens, that none of the ground could be seen.

  Jean de Joinville

  Brother, Eye, Land

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• The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Taken, Promise, Done

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• Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [417]

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• I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Fifty, Way, Hundred

  1599-1600 Touchstone. AsYou Like It, act 5, sc.1, l.51-6.

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• Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

  William of Tyre

  Evil, Outcomes, Ends

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• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Patriotic, Government

  Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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