Wise words

 1) "The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, hits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved yourself to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic can not be the comon, nor the common the heroic."

-Ralf Waldo Emerson

2) "When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

-Winston Churchill

3) "It is better to die on your feet than tio live on your knees"

-Emiliano Zapata

4) "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled,, and so abandon war forever."

-Thomas A. Edison

5) "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before wich difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

-John Quincy Adams

6) "Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human beeing."

-Kahlil Gibran, "The voice of the Poet"

7) "We happy few, we band of brothers/For he today that sheds his blood with me/Shall be my brother."

-W. Shakespeare, King Henry V

8) "You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war"

 -Kosovar

9) "There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the lobg run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

-Napoleon Bonaparte

10) "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but is braver 5 minutes longer."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

11) "He conquers who endures"

-Persius

12) "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

13) "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."

-Francois Fenelon

 14) "Better to fight for something than live for nothing"

-Gen. George S. Paton