War and Battle Quotes

"'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry--every man of every nation has done that--'tis the living up to it that is difficult." ~ The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes. ~ King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars." ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood. ~ The Call of the Wild by Jack London Reflect: we are well equipped, well fortified, we number 54. Fifty-four what? Men? No, MINDS--the capablest in the world; a force against which mere animal might may no more hope to prevail than may the idle waves of the sea hope to prevail against the granite barriers of England. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain "Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies." ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte "The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness." ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain "O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "But now I am return'd, and that war-thoughts have left their places vacant, in their rooms come thronging soft and delicate desires." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "Liberty is worth paying for." ~ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne