War Quote by Mary Beth Norton

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

— Samuel Johnson

“From jygging vaines of riming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keepes in pay, Weele leade you to the stately tent of War:…

— Christopher Marlowe

“I am out here to work, mind, to hold this wretched country by force. I'm not a missionary or a Labour Member or a…

— E.M. Forster

“A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their…

— Voltaire

“However he said before I came: To him who brought you up relate How you have broken honor's ties, And say,- his prompt response…

— Akaki Tsereteli

“Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully…

— Jules Verne

“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form of widespread…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions…

— Iain M. Banks

“I want to lose all harshness of jagged nerves, to be above all gentle. I feel we have achieved victory for that almost more…

— Wade Davis

“There was something decidedly unpleasant about him, sinister, at the same time absurd, that combination of the ludicrous and alarming soon to be widely…

— Anthony Powell

“Responsibility was our cruel mooring....”

— David Brin

“In India you clawed your way through the day, through dirt and glamour and people who seemed to strip the skin off your bones…

— Anurag Mathur