Famous Quotes

"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."

James A. Garfield 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 James A. Garfield

• "Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter."

• "Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."

• "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

• "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

• "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."