Famous Quotes

"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."

Miguel de Cervantes 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 Miguel de Cervantes

• "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."

• "Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

• "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

• "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this."

• "He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all."