There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

War is the province of danger.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Law is always better than war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.