War & Violence Sayings
20 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 20 authors
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Let whoever can stab, strangle and kill them like mad dogs.
Servetus suffered the penalty due his heresies, but was it by my will. Certainly his arrogance destroyed him not less than his impiety.
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions from a careful and skillful study of the observations.
The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
I hope that no one will think of me as a tyrant, nor as a man of blood.
To have a strong army and navy, one must have money. To have money, one must have trade. To have trade, one must have a sea port.
The sword of justice is the terror of the wicked and the hope of the good.
The greatest weapon is a well-disciplined army.
I am a man of blood and iron, and I will rule with an iron hand.
No state is ever well established unless it has a good army.
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
The blood in the animal body is impelled in a circle, and is in a state of ceaseless motion.
The only way to avoid war is to be prepared for it.
They ought to make good and skilled servants, for they repeat very quickly whatever we say to them.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty.
And from this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place.
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.