Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, War Quotes, Hero Quotes

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

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So shall I fight, so shall I tread, In this long war beneath the stars; So shall a glory wreathe my head, So shall I faint and show the scars, Until this case, this clogging mould, Be smithied all to kingly gold.

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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

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I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.

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These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

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One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

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War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

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A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

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The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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