Henry Van Dyke Quotes

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

At last I have won the Spanish war.

Why should fortune have made the Huns victorious over so many nations unless it where to prepare them for the joy of this conflict?

The object of a general is not to fight, but to conquer: he fights enough who obtains the victory.

Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Let the rain falling on your face run into your eyes. Can you see the rainbow now through the stormy skies?

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

Peace will be victorious.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

Peace surely is a good reason, yes. But there are other reasons too.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war