Call Of Duty Quotes

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

"In war there is no prize for the runner-up." - General Omar Bradley

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living." - General Omar Bradley

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - General Douglas MacArthur

"In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash." - General Douglas MacArthur

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." - General Douglas MacArthur

"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them." - General Douglas MacArthur

"So long as there are men there will be wars." - Albert Einstein

"We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart." - Albert Einstein

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

"Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books." - Walt Whitman

"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending." - Abraham Lincoln

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem." - Joseph Stalin

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance." - Joseph Stalin

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George S. Patton

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - General George S. Patton

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." - Ernest Hemingway

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." - Ernest Hemingway

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers." - Francois Fenelon

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace." - Ulysses S. Grant

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die." - Herbert Hoover

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war." - Plato

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country." - Bertrand Russell

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke, British statesman and philosopher

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature." - Barbara Kingsolver

"If we don't end war, war will end us." - H. G. Wells

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." - Edvard Munch

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

"For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!" - George Gordon Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason." - Ernest Hemmingway

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror." - General William Tecumseh Sherman

"War is delightful to those who have not experienced it." - Erasmus

"War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer." - Thomas Jefferson

"War would end if the dead could return." - Stanley Baldwin