Russian Proberb Quotes

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

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

Arms once taken up should never be laid down, but upon one of three conditions—a safe peace, a complete victory, or an honorable death.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

I have no animosity towards those who object to the war. Regardless of which side of the fence you're on, just give a moment of thanks to the hundreds of thousands of our forefathers who gave themselves so we can live in a world where we can do this.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun Tell me is it worth it all.

Fighting, having begun, must go on to the grim end

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day.

You come home when the war is won.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

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

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.