Total War Quotes - Page 4

• War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

  Anacreon

  War, Brave, Spares

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• War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Loss

  Letter to John Sinclair, 1798.

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• The sinews of war are infinite money.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, Money, War

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Peace, War, Battle

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

  John Adams

  Peace, War, History

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474

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• We make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  Strength, Veterans Day, Peace

  Nicomachean Ethics bk. 10, 1177b See Vegetius 1

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• Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Latin, Rome

  Pro Milone ch. 11

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  Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, War, 4th Of July

  Common Sense (1776)

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• No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Mind, Firsts

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.579, Princeton University Press

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Military, War

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• Character is much easier kept than recovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Integrity, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

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• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  George Washington

  Travel, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.367

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• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

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• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Political, Politics, Firsts

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• Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Fear, Feelings

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• You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

  James Madison

  Hands, Giving, Brain

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.341

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• I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.

  Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras

  Life, Death, Mistake

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• Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

  Alcaeus

  Men, Cities, Brave

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• The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

  Alexander Suvorov

  War, Church, Survivor

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

  Andrew Agnew

  Military, War, Eye

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• The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Peace, War, Army

  "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.

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• There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.

  William III of England

  Country, War, Mean

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