Henry David Thoreau

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.