War Quotes - Page 17

• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, Self, Want

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

  William Shakespeare

  Army, Faces, Royal

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.205, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!

  Pope Urban II

  Journey, Heaven, Kingdoms

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• To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.

  Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

  Three, More Money, Three Things

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• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Peace, Civilized Nations, Mars

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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Peace, Freedom, Men

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Fight to the last gasp.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Lasts

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• The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Military, Exercise, Rights

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• Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sorrow, Thrones

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.73

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• So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

  Hernando Cortes

  Children, Heart, Men

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• Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

  Thomas Paine

  Money, Victory, Cost

  Thomas Paine (1792). “Rights of Man, Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution... by T. Paine...”

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• O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, Names, Anti War

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• He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

  Louis XI of France

  Hypocrisy, Reign, Can Not

  "Hist. de France", Volume II, (p. 30) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 682-686), 1922.

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• Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

  Orderic Vitalis

  Triumph, East, Pilgrimage

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• To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, Office, Matter

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Victory, Settling

  Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

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• God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Kings, Roots

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• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, Philosophical, Enemy

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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• Strike up the drum and march courageously.

  Christopher Marlowe

  March, Strikes, Medieval War

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.192, Delphi Classics

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• Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

  Hernando Cortes

  Firsts, Ifs, Died

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• Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Medieval War

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.730

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• That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

  Noel Coward

  Hands, Feelings, Together

  Noel Coward (1952). “Play Parade”

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• Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

  Pope Urban II

  Brother, Fighting, Barbarians

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• A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Numbers, Victory

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [8]

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• The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, Sacrifice, Men

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