Quotes
Quotes about Will
The real war will never get in the books.
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. â¢Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. â¢Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. â¢Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. â¢Chinese Proverb 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. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. â¢Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. â¢Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. â¢Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. â¢William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
The next World War will be fought with stones.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all tribes and races of men, will forever be pronounced with affectionate gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an aspiration for human rights and liberty.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
Willful waste brings woeful want.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
