Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on War
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Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
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It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.
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The great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
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Our chiefs said 'Done,' and I did not deem it; Our seers said 'Peace,' and it was not peace; Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
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For we that fight till the world is free, We are not easy in victory: We have known each other too long, my brother, And fought each other, the world and we.
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It is all as of old, the empty clangour, The NOTHING scrawled on a five-foot page, The huckster who, mocking holy anger, Painfully paints his face with rage. : We that fight till the world is free, We have no comfort in victory; We have read each other as Cain his brother, We know each other, these slaves and we.
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Men that are men again: Who goes home? Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home? For there's blood on the grass and blood on the foam, And blood on the body, when Man comes home. And a voice valedictory: Who is for victory? Who is for liberty? Who goes home?
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.