Patriots, Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

War, Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

War, Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

War, Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)

War, Ulysses S. Grant

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

Death·Immortality, Edvard Munch

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

- Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

War, Croesus

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus (595 BC–547? BC)

War, Sun-Tzu

知彼知己百戰不殆。

- 孫子

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

- Sun-Tzu (孫子)

Advice, Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

History, Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)