Quotes
Quotes about War
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.
The Bill of RightsâThe Original Contract With America. Accept no substitutes. Beware of imitations. Insist on the genuine articles.
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.
All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. (the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some).
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better, Sleep to wake.
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
A bully is a coward turned inside out.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.
But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7].
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
