Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

If Hitler were to succeed, it would be the end for many besides ourselves of all those things which, as we say, “make life worth living.” We realize that the struggle may cost us everything, but just because the things we are defending are worth any sacrifice, it is a noble privilege to be the defenders of things so precious.

O’ Yes. War is better than slavery.

Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.