Ardor Quote by Herman Melville

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

— Herman Melville

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.

— Penelope Lively

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers,…

— George Santayana

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

— Horace

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

— Jeff Shaara

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village;…

— Thomas Carlyle

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the…

— George S. Patton

“The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being fought along the line between truth…

— John Piper

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

— Percival Lowell

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of…

— Walter Bagehot

“Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they…

— Lucas Bale

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking…

— Anonymous