War Period

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or period:

    Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    In a period of a people’s life that bears the designation “transitional,” the task of a thinking individual, of a sincere citizen of his country, is to go forward, despite the dirt and difficulty of the path, to go forward without losing from view even for a moment those fundamental ideals on which the entire existence of the society to which he belongs is built.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)