Quotes about war at home and abroad
1. If I had not been defeated by you at Zama, I would have ranked myself above Alexander. Hannibal, the famous Carthaginian general who invaded Rome during the Second Punic War.
2. Athenians, there is not much time left to encourage everyone, but for the brave, a few words are like a long speech. Hippocrates Athenian General in the Peloponnesian War
3. Hold it, or lie on it. It is said that a Spartan mother gave the shield to her son and said this
4. Contempt can cut the heart of the enemy more than killing. Victius, ancient Roman military theorist and author
5. One day, our sacred Troy and Pleiades, as well as the spear-bearing people of Pleiades, will disappear. Homer's poem, the conqueror of Carthage, the Roman general Scipio the Younger, recited this line on the ruins of Carthage, worried for his homeland.
6. The dice has been thrown. Caesar, when crossing the Rubicon
7. The mother of a coward will not cry Latin proverb (Latium is the area near Rome)
8. The reluctant peace It is also more popular than the most just war. Cicero
9. There are no other tribes outside us, only waves, cliffs, and the ferocious Romans. Even those who are loyal and docile cannot avoid being arrogant and domineering. These robbers from all over the world, after plundering all the continents, now come to the sea to plunder. If the enemy is rich, they will covet wealth; if the enemy is poor, they will conquer to gain honor. No matter the East or the West, they are all greedy for them. They are the only people in the world who have such greed for both poverty and wealth. They rob, kill, and steal, but they call it domination. They turn everything they go into scorched earth, but they call it peace. Tacitus' account of the indictment of Roman atrocities by the British chieftain Catanicus in a speech before the final battle of Granbian Hill.
10. Passengers in a foreign land, please bring a message to the Spartans, saying that we have faithfully fulfilled our promise and will sleep here "Epitaph of Hot Spring Pass"
11. If The Persian arrows can really cover up the sky and the sun, so we are fighting in the shade. Spartan King Dionys's disdainful reply to the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae
12. The Spartans did not ask how many enemies there were, only where they were. Spartan Quotes
13. As long as there is a foreigner on Italian soil, Rome will never negotiate peace. The national motto of Rome originated from Rome's reply to the Greeks during the Pyrrhic War.
14. I have never learned to play beautiful music, but I know how to make an unknown town glorious and great. Themistocles, the father of the Athenian navy
15. Varus, give me back my legions! In 9 AD at Teutoburg, three Roman legions were annihilated by the Germans under the leadership of Governor Varus , Augustus cried bitterly after hearing the news.
16. The fighting power of a flock of sheep led by a lion is far better than that of Alexander the Great, a lion led by sheep
17. Only those who are not afraid of death deserve to live---MacArthur
18. A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier - Napoleon
19. War has started since the beginning of private property and class, and is used to resolve class and class, nation and nation, country and country, The highest form of struggle between political groups and conflicts at a certain stage of development (Mao Zedong)
20. War is a violent act that forces the enemy to obey our will (Claude Servitz)
21. War begins when you want it, but it does not end when you like it (Machiavelli)
22. Anyone, including cowards, can To start a war, but to end it with the consent of the victor (Sallust)
23. War uses gold as well as gold (Ovid)
24. War seems It means blood and iron (Quintilian)
25. The prerequisite for war is: fighting is the only virtue, and peace is the only shame----(Bernard Shaw)