War Quotes - Page 18

• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Patriotic, Blunders

  Winston Churchill (2013). “The Second World War”, p.565, A&C Black

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• Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Medieval War

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.730

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• Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

  Pope Urban II

  Brother, Fighting, Barbarians

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• A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Numbers, Victory

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [8]

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• Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

  Thomas Paine

  Money, Victory, Cost

  Thomas Paine (1792). “Rights of Man, Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution... by T. Paine...”

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• What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Enemy, Samurai

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, Self, Want

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Peace, Stupid, Mean

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, Names, Anti War

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• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Peace, Civilized Nations, Mars

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• No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Peace, Lying, Historical

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• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Struggle, Race

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

  Patrick Henry

  Strong, Boston, Brave

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

  Golda Meir

  Differences, Decision, Political

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• My voice is still for war.

  Joseph Addison

  Voice, Stills

  Joseph Addison, James WILD (Dramatist.) (1779). “Cato; a tragedy ... As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book ... by Mr. Wild. (Bell's edition.).”, p.29

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• Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.

  Bruce D. Porter

  Government, America, Growth

  Bruce D. Porter (1994). “War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics”

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• Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Peace, Men, Blood

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• Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Battle, Infantry, Ends

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• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Fighting, Pride

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• Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Peace, Sides, Fortune

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• O war! thou son of Hell!

  William Shakespeare

  Son, Hell

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.64, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Historical, Liberty, Emergencies

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Volume 3: "The Political Order of a Free People". Chapter 17: "A Model Constitution", 1973.

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• If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.

  Bohemond I of Antioch

  Fighting, Men, Wish

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• The god of war hates those who hesitate.

  George S. Patton

  Hate, Military, Bad Ass

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• The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Men, Blame

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