Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

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

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

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

War is a terribly destructive force, even beyond the limits of the battlefronts and the war zones. It's influence involves the whole community. It warps men's judgement, distorts the true standard of patriotism, breeds distrust and suspicion among neighbors, inflames passions, encourages violence, develops abuse of power, tyrannizes over men and women even in the purely social relations of life, and terrifies whole communities into the most abject surrender of every right which is the heritage of free government.

We are in the midst of war – war of the most bloody kind – a war of extermination. Freedom and slavery are interlocked in deadly embrace, and death is certain for one or the other party.... A crisis is just before us ... and only God knoweth where it will end.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

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.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

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

Our vengeance shall rival Spanish ferocity. Our goodwill is at last exhausted; and, since our oppressors compel us to mortal warfare, they shall disappear from America and our land shall be purged of the monsters that infest it. Our hate shall be inexorable and our war shall be to the death.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

O’ Yes. War is better than slavery.

There are worse things than war.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.