You need only a show of war to have peace. — Livy Ostendite modo bellum, pacem habebitis. Original text (Latin) Share this quote Post on X Facebook Download image Copy quote Copy link Share… Another quote → Topics War
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)
The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. Hunter S. Thompson
Only the dead have seen the end of war. George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)