Samuel Butler Quotes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

Hospitals are about healing.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Nature can do more than physicians.

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

People need medicine and they need therapists.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Our country has never started a war. Our sole objective is deterrence, the strength and capability it takes to prevent war.