Horace

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

[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.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

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

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

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

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction

War is not a matter for the professional pacifist or militarist. It is for the unprofessional people. They finance and fight it, they bear its losses. Therefore, they should have the deciding voice concerning it. To do this, they require all the information upon which decisions are made. They should know in a difference, whether it is soluble by rational intelligence, or inevitable by force. Not once in a thousand instances would our people (this may not be true of all peoples, however) approve an offensive war. Never would they be lax in defensive action. For this is their country. However, most of their enemies are within it.

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can’t get away this time!

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.