There Will Be War Quotes

“When you enter West Point, you find that the Army doesn’t care a hang about the first verses of the Star Spangled Banner. It’s the third verse that you must learn. It goes: Oh thus be it ever when free men shall stand, Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven rescued land, Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, When our cause it is just, And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust!’ And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”
― Jerry Pournelle, There Will Be War Volume I

“The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life’s journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe.”
― Jerry Pournelle, There Will Be War Volume I

“The experience of war never quite leaves a young man or woman. A great many are utterly destroyed by it. All are indelibly and subtly marked by it, because, for good or evil, the memory never quite leaves any of us.” Col.”
― Jerry Pournelle, There Will Be War Volume I

“It had to be worth it, Colvin thought. It just didn't make sense to put the whole human race under one government.
Someday they'd get a really bad Emperor. Or three Emperors all claiming the throne at once. better to put a stop to this now, rather than leave the problem to their grandchildren.”
― Jerry Pournelle, There Will Be War