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A bad peace is even worse than war.
Tacitus55–120
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Tacitus55–120Close of chapter 30, Oxford Revised Translation
The gods are on the side of the stronger.
Tacitus55–120Histories (100-110), Book IV, 17
- Power
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- Courage
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- Responsibility
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- Courage
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Reflects on Working Toward Peace, (essay, Santa Clara University, retrieved August 2012).
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World (2002), p. 50
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005“Kingdom of Fear” (12 September 2001)
- America
The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Civil Disobedience (1849)In context
- Government
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult⁠—to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XXII.
- Democracy
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XXII.
- Freedom
I have in this War a burning private grudge — which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), No. 45: To his son Michael (9 June 1941)
- Clever Jabs
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973“A Secret Vice” (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien