War Quotes - Page 27

• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, World, Facts

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• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

  George Washington

  Military, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.24, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Victory, Substitutes, Total War

  Congressional Record 19 Apr. 1951, vol. 97, pt. 3, p. 4125

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• A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.

  Martin Luther

  Safe, Weapons, Shields

  'Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott' (1529) translation by Thomas Carlyle

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• Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

  Harrison Ford

  Kids, Your Side, Books And Movies

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• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  Two, Giving, Scare

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!

  Robert W. Service

  Song, Cheer, Fighting

  Robert William Service, “Carry On”

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• It is the good war that hallows every cause.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Causes, Good War, Good Causes

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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

  Tacitus

  Shameful

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• Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Lightning, Principles, Use

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• Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them.
  [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Bridges, Enemy, Silver

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• War! war! war!
  Heaven aid the right!
  God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!
  God send the women sleep in the long, long night,
  When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Hero, Moving, Sleep

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.111

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• Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Lasts, Sides, Providence

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 841-60, 1922.

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• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

  Edward Abbey

  Peace, Real, Home

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, Son

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  Long, People, Venture

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded”, p.189

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• A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Peace, Son

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

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• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  Salvador Dali

  Hurt, Artist, People

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• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Peace, Fear, Spring

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Society, Vietnam, Casualties

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Money, Ubuntu

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• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Clever, Giants

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, Son

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Freedom Of Speech, Criticism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.146, Cornell University Press

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