Quotes about war
war father peacemaking
War is the father of all things. Heraclitus
war justice common
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
war justice passing-away
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
war fire house
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations...
war feelings action
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also. Henry Ward Beecher
war character reality
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
war men insanity
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
war men funeral
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
war adversity religion
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
war intolerance dies
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
war mind science-and-religion
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
war men firsts
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
war men conflict
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
war forests acorns
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
war law clock
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
war mean views
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
war order perfect
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
war spring long
As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
war people ignorant
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
war keeping-secrets half
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
war class ignorant
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
war law community
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
war sunday england
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
war land soul
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
war ideas theology
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
war europe blood
Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
war selfish heart
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
war failure done
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. Henry Knox
war eyebrows victory
The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory. Henry L. Stimson
war unconditional-love japan
As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
war people world
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
war japan people
When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that ... a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed.
war views years
In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace. Henry Clay