Applause Quote by Edward Gibbon

“Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect…

— George Washington

“…no greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility…”

— Richard Hakluyt

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of…

— Edward Gibbon

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as…

— Theodore Parker

“But it requires no very profound knowledge of history to perceive that military superiority often exists distinct from social civilization, that literary cultivation affords…

— George Finlay

“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees…

— Leo Tolstoy

“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against…

— Abraham Lincoln

No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the…

— Richard Hakluyt

“Military ferocity is not a fixed quality of any race or culture, but a temporary condition that usually bears the seeds of it own…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

“I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom,…

— John F. Kennedy

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor…

— Samuel Johnson

...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...

— Alexander Hamilton