Civil war Quote by Lew Wallace Download Open image “This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.” — Lew Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil war Good thing Good things Humanity Military Nature of man Very good War
Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men. — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“There are always those who wish to sanitize war by portraying its grand and noble deeds-which sometimes occur-while drawing a veil over its shameless… — John Ferling Copy Share Image
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy… — Fred Woodworth Copy Share Image
I believe the connection is growing stronger. Just to think that 40-plus years ago, service members would return from combat to get spit on… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“From her love, O, reader!--her mother-love, which, if thou wilt observe well, hath this unlikeness to any other love: tender to the object, it… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“The most perfect life develops as a circle, and terminates in its beginning, making it impossible to say, This is the commencement, that the… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“From the depths of the well I had discovered a light above, and yearned to go up and see what all it shone upon.… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“Father of all--God!--what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars;… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
“ “In the South, football is confused with religion, chivalry, the Civil War, and women.” -Diane Roberts, The Quotable South ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition,… — James A. Connolly Copy Share Image
