10,941 Quotes About War

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

This is a tale of arms and of a man. Fated to be an exile, he was the first to sail from the land of Troy and reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore. He met many tribulations on his way both by land on on the ocean; high Heaven willed it, for Juno was ruthless and could not forget her anger.

I shall carve the name of every stolen plotAnd where the village boundaries lay;What homes exploded,What trees uprooted, what tiny wildflowers crushed.All this to remember. And I'll keep on carve=ingEach act of this my tragedy, each phase of the catastrophe,All things, minor and major,On an olive tree in the courtyard of my home.

People in the countryside soon told of seeing hon bul, “ghost flames,” or “spirit fires,” flickering in the night over the killing fields.

The legions of evil are many, Father; grace our arms to meet and defeat them in Thy name and in the name of the freedom and dignity of man.

[Churchill] stood. As he spoke, his voice shook and tears streamed. ‘In these days,’ he said, ‘I often think of Our Lord.’ He could say no more. He sat down and looked at no one – the great orator made speechless by the weight of the day. Cowles found herself deeply moved. ‘I have never forgotten those simple words and if he enjoyed waging the war let it be remembered that he understood the anguish of it as well.

Your lordship’s servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear’s skin before he has hunted him.

...wars are orgies of forgetfulness. The twentieth century has archived vast catacombs, tunnels of information in which researchers get lost and in the end abandon their research, catacombs that ever fewer people enter. Stored away---forgotten. The twentieth century, a century of great tidying that ends in cleansing; the twentieth century, a century of cleansing, a century of erasure. Language perhaps remains, but it too is crumbling.

It is always important to guard with jealous attention the origin of your existence .Don't be shy to Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel with distractive intentions.Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. And that is why u must always be ready for a war .