War Quotes - Page 176

Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

He doth nothing but talk of his horses.

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

Reflection makes men cowards.

Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

I, too, saw God through mud

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.