War Quotes - Page 23

• War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

  George Orwell

  Country, Money, Thinking

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Facing unpleasant facts, 1937-1939”

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• You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

  Will Rogers

  Death, Civilization, History

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 23 Dec. 1929

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• As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

  Albert Einstein

  Long, Sovereign, Inevitable

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.45, Open Road Media

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  I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

  Alexander the Great

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Sometimes, Abstract

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• Hold the fort! I am coming!

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Forts

  Signal to Gen. John M. Corse at Allatoona, October 05, 1864.

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• One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, Doe, Humans

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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• It is not right to exult over slain men.

  Homer

  Men

  "The Odyssey". Epic poem by Homer, c. 725 BC.

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• You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, America, Soldier

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.19, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  Sad, Witty, Powerful

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

  Francois Fenelon

  Brother, Hippie, Patriotic

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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Arbitration, Compromise, Settling

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

  Ellen Key

  Teamwork, Peace, Military

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• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Peace, Military, Unfolding

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

  E. B. White

  Peace, Father, Years

  1954 The Second Tree from the Corner, 'The Second Tree from the Corner'.

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• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

  William Ellery Channing

  Country, Peace, Liberty

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Military, Mankind, Plague

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• Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

  Euripides

  Hate, God Of War, Total War

  "Heracleidae". Play by Euripides, 430 BCE.

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• During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

  Howard Thurman

  Peace, Hatred, Patriotism

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Independent, Successful

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays, letters, miscellanies”

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• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

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• Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

  George Washington

  Peace, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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