John Lothrop Motley Quotes

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

The great questions of the day are not to be decided by speeches and majorities ... but by iron and blood.

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Lincoln's paper proclamation must now become iron, lead and fire.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years … and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home … to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

All armed prophets have been victorious and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

Policy is not made with papers or ceremonies. Policy is made with iron and blood.

it is not decency or goodness or gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

When you’ve got enough firepower, you win wars.

I'm an indestructible master of war.

God is always with the strongest battalions.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

War knows no law except that of might.

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.