War Quotes - Page 350

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

The god of war hates those who hesitate.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

Service without reward is punishment.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only country in the world really not to have a war fought on its territory since the time of the Civil War ... Therefore we can afford mistakes that would kill other countries. And therefore we can take risks that they can't ... the core answer to why the United States is like this is we didn't fight World War I and World War II and the Cold War here.

It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.