Henry Ford

Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

That’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

[John McCain is]… not a war hero. He’s a war hero – he’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I Like people that weren’t captured, OK, I hate to tell you.

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.