War - Philosophy II

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"For what can war but endless war breed?"
John Milton (1608-1674)

"He knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility."
Lord Macaulay (1800-1859)

"If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans."
Prince Bismarck (1815-1898)

"A citizen, first in war, first in peace, and first in the heart of his countrymen."
Henry Lee (1756-1818)

"Lovely also to witness great battle-plans of war, carried out across the plains, without your having any share of the danger."
Lucretius (94-55 BC)

"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it."
"In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The words of his mouth were softer than butter, having war in his heart: his words were smoother than oil, and yet they be very swords."
Prayer Book 1662

"And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south,
with the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth.
Four things greater than all things are,
Women and Horses and Power and War."
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

" 'Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting - it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty percent of its danger."
R.S. Surtees (1803-1864)

"And the softness of my body will be guarded from
embrace
By each button, hook, and lace.
For the man who should loose me is dead,
fighting with the Duke of Flanders,
in a pattern called war.
Christ! What are patterns for?"
Amy Lowell (1856-1943)