War Quotes - Page 267

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws [it] open.

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

Let the boy win his spurs.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.