War Quotes - Page 8

• Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Rights

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• [Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

  William R. Looney III

  Country, Peace, Oil

  "A Lot For Access" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 1996.

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• Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

  John Fowles

  Love, Men, Laughing

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Smell

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

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• War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service

  Smedley Butler

  Military, Order, Typical

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• In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  Bystanders, Government, Prejudice

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.223, e-artnow

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• Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

  Henry Ford

  Fire, Doe, Hazards

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

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• After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

  Salman Rushdie

  Long, People, Hopeless

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• It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

  Don DeLillo

  Interesting, Soul, Weapons

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• In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Hands, Issues

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.261, Wildside Press LLC

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

  Ilghazi

  Dog, Sacrifice, Law

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• I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can!

  William Wallace

  Ifs

  Statement before the Battle of Falkirk on July 21, 1298. "The Story of England". Book by Samuel B. Harding, www.mainlesson.com. 1909.

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• Kill them all, God will recognise his own.

  Arnaud Amalric

  Gods Will, Recognise, Total War

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• On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.

  Matthew of Edessa

  Troops, Royal, Sides

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• The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

  Matthew of Edessa

  Fighting, Blood, Rivers

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• One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

  Stefan Halper

  Peace, Keys, Democracy

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• The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
  [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

  Victor Hugo

  Eagles

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• The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Accountability, United States

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

  Alan Bennett

  Instinct, Scope, Establishment

  'Forty Years On' (1969) act 1

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• There was a stately drama writ
  By the hand that peopled the earth and air,
  And set the stars in the infinite,
  And made night gorgeous and morning fair;
  And all that had sense to reason knew
  That bloody drama must be gone through.
  Some sat and watched how the action veered--
  Waited, profited, trembled, cheered--
  We saw not clearly nor understood,
  But yielding ourselves to the masterhand,
  Each in his part as best he could,
  We played it through as the author planned.

  Alan Seeger

  Morning, Stars, Drama

  Alan Seeger, “The Hosts”

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• Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
  [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Acquisition, May, Objects

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• All war is deception.

  Sun Tzu

  Deception

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• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Peace, Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves

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• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Adventure, Heads Or Tails

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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