Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace Greeley

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

Horace Greeley

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

Horatio Nelson

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

Horatio Nelson

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

Horatio Nelson

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

Horatio Nelson

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Horatio Nelson

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

Horatio Nelson

Thank God I have done my duty.

Horatio Nelson

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Horatio Nelson

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Horatio Nelson

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

Horatio Nelson

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Horace

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

Homer

I war not with the dead.

Homer

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

Homer

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Homer

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

Homer

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Homer

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

Homer

Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.

Homer

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Homer

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Homer

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

Homer

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Homer

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

McG

I don't think 'This Means War' is an appropriate picture to do in 3-D.

Erica Jong

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

Erica Jong

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Erica Jong

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Eric Burns

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

Enrique Iglesias

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Eoin Colfer

Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root

Jay Asher

I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.