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War Quotes by John Steinbeck
- The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making…
- It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
- Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is…
- All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
- The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and…
- Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do…
More War Quotes
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare