Cod Quotes:

"We make war that we may live in peace."

Aristotle
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

John Quincy Adams
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

Napoleon Bonaparte
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

Napoleon Bonaparte
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

Napoleon Bonaparte
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

Napoleon Bonaparte
"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them."

Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Napoleon Bonaparte
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

Napoleon Bonaparte
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke
"In war there is no prize for the runner-up."

General Omar Bradley
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

General Omar Bradley
"For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd, And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!"

George Gordon Byron
"War would end if the dead could return."

Stanley Baldwin
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Winston Churchill
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Winston Churchill
"If you are going through hell...keep going."

Winston Churchill
"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it."

Winston Churchill
"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

Winston Churchill
"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."

Winston Churchill
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

Winston Churchill
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

Winston Churchill
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender."

Winston Churchill
"Live as brave men, and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

Cicero
"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."

Croesus
"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war."

Georges Clemenceau
"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."

Georges Clemenceau
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"So long as there are men there will be wars."

Albert Einstein
"We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart."

Albert Einstein
"War is delightful to those who have not experienced it."

Erasmus
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

Thomas Edison
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."

Francois Fenelon
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."

John Arbuthnot Fisher
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."

Ulysses S. Grant
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

Kahlil Gibran
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

Ernest Hemingway
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

Ernest Hemingway
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

Ernest Hemingway
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

Herbert Hoover
"In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war."

Horace
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
"War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer."

Thomas Jefferson
"You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war."

Kosovar
"There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature."

Barbara Kingsolver
"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending."

Abraham Lincoln
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it."

Robert E. Lee
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

General Douglas MacArthur
"In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash."

General Douglas MacArthur
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

General Douglas MacArthur
"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them."

General Douglas MacArthur
"In war there is no substitute for victory."

General Douglas MacArthur
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill
"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."

Andre Maurois
"There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."

James Morrow
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

Edvard Munch
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

Jose Narosky
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

General George S. Patton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

General George S. Patton
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."

General George S. Patton
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

General George S. Patton
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

General George S. Patton
"May God have mercy on my enemies, because I won't."

General George S. Patton
"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."

Plato
"He who conquers, endures."

Persius
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."

Franklin D. Roosevelt
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

Bertrand Russell
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell
"You can't say civilization don't advance - for in every war, they kill you in a new way."

Will Rogers
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."

Joseph Stalin
"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."

Joseph Stalin
"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."

Joseph Stalin
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."

Joseph Stalin
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror."

General William Tecumseh Sherman
"War is cruel and you cannot refine it."

General William Tecumseh Sherman
"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."

Solomon Short
"We happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me. Shall be my brother."

William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once."

William Shakespeare
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

Sun-Tzu
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

Voltaire
"Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war

Walt Whitman
"If we don't end war, war will end us."

H. G. Wells
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."

General William Westmoreland
"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

John Wayne
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is. I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein
"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternative service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war."

Albert Einstein
"To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder."

Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

Albert Einstein
"It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to human materiel."

Albert Einstein
"It is better for people to be like the beasts...they should be more intuitive. They should not be too conscious of what they are doing while they are doing it."

Albert Einstein
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Plans are nothing, planning is everything."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

General George S. Patton


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