War Quotes - Page 271

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.

For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.