War Quotes - Page 328

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Awards don't really mean much.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

My mind is my biggest asset.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

The root of war is fear.

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.