Isaac R. Trimble famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.
**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

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