John Paul Jones Quotes

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

John Paul Jones

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• To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Achieve
  • Guns

• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • War
  • Germany
  • Defeated

• It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Learn

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Free
  • Military

• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Great
  • American
  • Period

• Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

  

  Karl Rove
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Prepare

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • War
  • Career

• I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Think
  • Peace
  • Joy

• In my career, I am so so happy and grateful for everything I've gotten to do. And yet, I wish I had started off earlier so I could, I don't know... I certainly have not not gotten work because of my age, but I'm just gonna pray and hope that the roles will still keep coming as I get older.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Hope

• You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Prepare
  • Prevent

• Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Fun
  • Die
  • Value

• Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Water
  • Cold

• On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • War
  • Peace
  • Wish