"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
-- Dwight Eisenhower
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance"
- Union General John Sedgwick spoke these words just moments before being shot dead by a confederate sniper at Spotsylvania
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. -- Edmund Burke
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. -- Winston Churchill
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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war. -- George Washington
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -- Thomas Paine
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined. -- George Washington, First Annual Address, January 8, 1790.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. -- Dwight David Eisenhower
Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war!) -- Flavius Vegetius Renatus
"Those who can win a war well
can rarely make a good peace,
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war."
- Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
- Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain
"So long as there are men there will be wars"
- Albert Einstein
"The purpose of all war is ultimately peace." - Saint Augustine
"War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left" -anonymous
"It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
"War is hell." William Tecumseh Sherman |
