A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith | Cowardice
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Cook, Eliza | Cowardice
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Goethe, Johann Von | Cowardice
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
South, Robert | War
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
di Cavour, Camillo | War
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.
Hardy, Thomas | War
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
MacArthur, Douglas | War
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Erasmus, Desiderius | War
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Jefferson, Thomas | War
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Cleghorn, Sarah | War
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
Le Gallienne | War
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
von Clausewitz, Carl | War
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
Baruch, Bernard Mannes | War
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Hemingway, Ernest | War
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Washington, George | War
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.
Pythagoras | War
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
MacArthur, Douglas | War
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Bradley, Omar | War
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.
MacArthur, Douglas | War
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Ray, James | War
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Rabelais | War
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Aquinas, St. Thomas | War
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
de Maupassant, Guy | War
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
von Clausewitz, Carl | War
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
Pike, Albert | War
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Churchill, Winston | War
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