War Quotes - Page 92
James Henry Hammond (1866). “Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina”, p.45
Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.
Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.
Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.525, Penguin
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag