Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

History has been the history of warfare.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

War makes early risers of us all.

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

War is death's feast.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.