Books Quote by John Keegan

The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war may inform…

— Edward Gibbon

“It is a tale that is told, from which we may draw the knowledge and comprehension needed for the future. The disproportion between the…

— Winston Churchill

“They are many indeed that lie there, though until now we have not thought of it so. Hitherto we have just all remained there…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“War serves only the warlords and the graveyards!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them.…

— R.W. Schmidt

“Let the war-ravaged people speak No more Hiroshimas No more Warsaw Massacres Oh martyred Lidice! Bleeding Poland! Beautiful Dresden no one could save. Nor…

— Rebecca Shelley

“It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the…

— Victor Hugo

“great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” And”

— Lee Child

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“What horrifies me most about war memorials is that no anti-war sentiments are ever displayed. It's as if war is fun or noble, when…

— Billy Connolly

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual…

— Rebecca Harding Davis