Matthias Corvinus famous quotes

Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.
-- Matthias Corvinus

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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.