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Best War Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
- Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
- Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
- Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
- The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
- The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
- I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do…
- 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…
- It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
- Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
- Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
- See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
- Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
- Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
- A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
- The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
- The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
- Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in…
- A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people;…
- The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
- Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It…
- Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood