09-29-2008, 10:57 PM
Some beauties from William Tecumsah Sherman:
"I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
War is hell."
"An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army"
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."
"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
From John Paul Jones:
"I have not yet begun to fight."
"He who will not risk, cannot win."
Another American expression:
"Smile when you say that, mister."
The cultural model behind that last is worth one of your students discovering, since it is foreign to Europeans, who have become docile and tame.
Occhi
"I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
War is hell."
"An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army"
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over."
"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
From John Paul Jones:
"I have not yet begun to fight."
"He who will not risk, cannot win."
Another American expression:
"Smile when you say that, mister."
The cultural model behind that last is worth one of your students discovering, since it is foreign to Europeans, who have become docile and tame.
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete