Famous Quotes

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."

E. B. White on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by E. B. White

• "Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."

• "The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance."

• "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."

• "The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it."

• "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."