Famous quotes containing the words war i, british, army, world and/or war:
“War is not a life: it is a situation,
One which may neither be ignored nor accepted.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“An army is maintained for a thousand days all to be used on one morning.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Oh, what a might is this whose single frown
Doth shake the world as it would shake it down?
Which all from nothing fet, from nothing all;
Hath all on nothing set, lets nothing fall.
Gave all to nothing man indeed, whereby
Through nothing man all might Him glorify.”
—Edward Taylor (1645–1729)
“If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)