Quotes by Irving, Washington

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence >>

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection >>

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged to >>

Quotations about War

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military >>

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. >>

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but wha >>

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Irving, Washington