War Quotes - Page 29

• Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

  Saadi

  Enemy, May, Injury

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.149, Innovations and Information

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• It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

  Sophocles

  Peace, News, Merit

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• The brazen throat of war.

  John Milton

  Throat, Brazen

  John Milton (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.505

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• Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

  Alexander Blok

  Fun, Gun, Damnation

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• My subject is war, and the pity of war.

  Wilfred Owen

  Pity, Subjects

  Preface (written 1918)

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• In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Triumph, Contact

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• The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Tyrants, Desire, Common

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• Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Soldier, Crow, Meat

  Thomas Carlyle (1908). “Sartor Resartus and Essays on Burns and Scott”

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• My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

  Henry Ford

  Fighting, Civilization, Mind

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Prayer, Men, Sweat

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

  John Milton

  Battle, Sound, World

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 4

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• Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Leaves Of Grass, Deeds

  'Reconciliation'

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• **** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

  David Farragut

  Military, Marine, Army

  At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10

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• The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, Two Sides, Might

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• Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Peace, Philosophical, Government

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• Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

  Alan Watts

  Peace, Principles, Destructive

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• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Government, Historical

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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• War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Peace, Military, Men

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• We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Trying, Lasts

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• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

  James Madison

  Peace, Government, Branches

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.43, University of Virginia Press

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• Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, World, Arms

  'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

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• One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Powerful, Southern, Population

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Believe, Effort, Problem

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• To whom God will, there be the victory.

  William Shakespeare

  Victory, Gods Will, Medieval War

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Plays of William Shakspeare”, p.239

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