Famous Quotes

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• "Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

• "Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

• "The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

• "Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

• "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."