War Quotes

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys."

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

Euripides

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it."

Thucydides

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."

Pericles

"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."

Simonides

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

Elie Wiesel

"Have you news of my boy Jack? Not this tide."

Rudyard Kipling

"Here dead we lie because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung."

A. E. Housman

"What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns."

Wilfred Owen

"At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."

Laurence Binyon

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row."

John McCrae

"When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today."

John Maxwell Edmonds

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

G. K. Chesterton

"You must never so much as think whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."

Clara Barton

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

John Milton

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny."

Kofi Annan

"Never, 'for the sake of peace and quiet,' deny your own experience or convictions."

Dag Hammarskjöld

"Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity."

Ralph Bunche

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

"Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."

Edith Cavell

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

Florence Nightingale

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."