War Quotes - Page 29

• Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

  Saadi

  Enemy, May, Injury

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.149, Innovations and Information

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• It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

  Sophocles

  Peace, News, Merit

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• Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Long, Gettysburg, Endure

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Prayer, Men, Sweat

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• **** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

  David Farragut

  Military, Marine, Army

  At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10

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• Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

  Alexander Blok

  Fun, Gun, Damnation

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• There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Call Of Duty, Good War, Honorable

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• The brazen throat of war.

  John Milton

  Throat, Brazen

  John Milton (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.505

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• No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

  John Milton

  Battle, Sound, World

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 4

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• Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Leaves Of Grass, Deeds

  'Reconciliation'

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• Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

  Alexander Pope

  Fighting, Might, Fields

  Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.259

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• My subject is war, and the pity of war.

  Wilfred Owen

  Pity, Subjects

  Preface (written 1918)

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• In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Triumph, Contact

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• The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, Two Sides, Might

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• Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Peace, Philosophical, Government

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• Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

  Alan Watts

  Peace, Principles, Destructive

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• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Government, Historical

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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• War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Peace, Military, Men

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• I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

  Sheryl Crow

  Peace, Thinking, Greed

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• The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Peace, Army, British Navy

  "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.

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• All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, Men, Greatest Victory

  Sun Tzu (2012). “The Illustrated Art of War”, p.144, Courier Corporation

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• It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

  Sun Tzu

  Following Instructions, Giving, Enemy

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Military, Army

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Opportunity, Enemy

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.12, SJ Creations Tokyo

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