Quotes on War

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

War is politics by other means.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.