War Quotes - Page 316

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

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.]

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.

War will make corpses of us all.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

I should like to have been killed in the war.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

Change means the unknown.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

Patriotism alone is not enough.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.