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"There is none born wise." ~ Ptahhotpe, Maxims (24th century B.C.).
War and Peace
“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something and you don‘t get it. You kill and covet but you cannot have what you want.” ~ The Bible (James 4:1-2).
“For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. . . For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath, to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.” ~ The Bible (Romans 13:3-4.)
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.” ~ Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964), in a speech at the Republican Party National Convention, Chicago, June 17, 1944. 31st U.S. President.
“A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict, however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.” ~ James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), speech in the House of Representatives, June 25, 1864. 20th President of the U.S.
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), American author.
“We make war that we may live in peace.” ~ Aristotle (384 B.C. - 322 B/C/), Nichomachean Ethics.
“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.” ~ Havelock Ellis.
"It is simply not true that war never settles anything." ~ Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965), Supreme Court Justice.
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” ~ William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1998).
“Let him who desires peace prepare for war.” ~ Flavius Vegetius Renatus. (375 AD).
“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing, that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.” ~ English author, Agatha Christie, 1890-1976. Autobiography (1977).
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” ~ George Washington (1732 - 1799), first annual message to Congress, January 8, 1790.
“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821).
“[Arms] should be the last resource.” ~ George Washington, letter to George Mason, 1769.
“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.” ~ Alfred Adler
“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1985).
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” ~ Albert Einstein (1870-1955).
“There’s nothing Yasser Arafat likes better than talking peace while planning war.” ~ Richard Z. Chesnoff.
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” ~ Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
“If we have an epidemic of bullies in the schools today, it is not because children have suddenly become more evil. It's because adults have forgotten how to keep order.” ~ Daniel Weintraub
“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.” ~ Gen. George S. Patton (1885 - 1945), message to his troops, October, 1942.
“The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.” ~ Chinese Proverb.
“The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.” ~ Cicero, Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
“To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.” ~ Albert Einstein, in Kaizo, a Japanese magazine (1952).
"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." ~ Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), French politician.
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" ~ Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). "Non-Violence in Peace and War."
"In war there are no winners." ~ Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister who trusted negotiation with Adolf Hitler and, in 1938, thought he had achieved "peace in our time."
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." ~ Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). U.S. Confederate General.
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