Famous Quotes

"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."

Walter Bagehot 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 Walter Bagehot

• "No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

• "A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."

• "Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

• "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

• "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."