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Quotes About Strength

Never go to war unless your willing to win.
~ John G. Schmitz
As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.
~ John McCain
The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.
~ Laozi
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.
~ Learned Hand
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.
~ Loudon Wainwright III
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
~ Louis L'Amour
And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
~ Max Brooks
This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.
~ Melina Marchetta
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
~ Steven Spielberg
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
~ Thomas Paine
I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?
~ Veronica Roth
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
~ Voltaire
Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
~ Winston Churchill
Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main
Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.
~ Amit Kalantri
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
~ Ptah-Hotep
You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Peace be with you, " I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.
~ Kevin Hearne, Hexed
Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.
~ Toba Beta