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Historical War Quotes & Sayings

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In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her. — Nadifa Mohamed

When you want something, all the Universe conspires to helping you achieve it.
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Just ask.. — Victoria Aldridge Washuk

These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice? — Elizabeth Wein

It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse — Nancy B. Brewer

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time. — Marcia Gay Harden

In time of war, it is not enough to say, 'I am a citizen and I have rights.' One must also say, 'I am a citizen and I have obligations. — Kermit Roosevelt III

There are some things you never say good-bye to — Elizabeth Berg

I am afraid, my dear niece, that a 'mere woman' is something you most certainly are not. — Katlyn Charlesworth

They would never forget the war. The world wouldn't let them, and neither would history. — Lee Strauss

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower) — Nancy B. Brewer

Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord. — Nancy B. Brewer

It is easier to start a war than to end it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. — Sarah Sundin

Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you. — Nancy B. Brewer

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England — Lauren Willig

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat. — Sarah Sundin

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. — Jefferson Davis

I am German, yes, but I am not a Nazi. There is a difference, and one day I hope you understand that. — Caroline Leech

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison. — Elizabeth Wein

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy ... — John McCain

War is a terrible, bloody thing. — Katlyn Charlesworth

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning. — Jeffrey Whittam

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. — Jefferson Davis

Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered. — Amine Maalouf

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark. — Parke Godwin

I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark. — Julia Lee Dean

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. — Chris Womersley

He was wearing a little bag of "Mojo" around his neck. — Nancy B. Brewer

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end. — Chris Womersley

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor. — James Franck

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Paul De Man

Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Plastic flowers last for hours — Bill Fairclough

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. — Nancy B. Brewer

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.
We were about to become cigarettes. — Ruta Sepetys

I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family. — Nancy B. Brewer

According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats. — Nancy B. Brewer

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe. — Aaron A.A. Smith

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. — Seneca The Younger

Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister. — Sarah Sundin

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today. — A.J. Muste

Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya. — Ron A Swan

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace. — Kenneth E. Boulding

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War. — Ewa Kopacz

NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges — Angela Merkel

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war. — Robert Gilpin

A story is a wondrous invention. — Chris Womersley