Quotes About War Drums

#1. Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

Ron Paul

#2. All I hear are Satan's hammers and the war drums of hell, thank you.

Alexandra Bracken

#3. The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler

#4. No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

Margaret Case Harriman

#5. Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,
Once more from roaring cannon and the drums
And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes;
Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar:
Once more your Captain calls to you;
Come to his last review!

Richard Watson Gilder

#6. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

Ben Shapiro

#7. It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world. The unbearable news of sixteen million deaths rolled off the great metal drums of the newspapers. Europe was a crucible of bones.

Colum McCann

#8. Art is very much a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace. Art is not so much what we make, but how we relate to the world. Not a noun, but a verb. This puts art back in a position to be claimed by the many.

Scott W. Alexander

#9. Straight people have it so much easier. They don't understand. They can't. There's no such thing as openly straight.

Bill Konigsberg

#10. Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

Dennis Hastert

#11. Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.

Helen Simonson

#12. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, the drums are beatin' braw. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, are ye marchin' off tae war?

Brian Jacques

#13. We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded.

Tetsuo Miura

#14. I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

John McCain

#15. I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

Tim Henman

#16. Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

Tim Robbins

#17. On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums ... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

Sun Tzu

#18. Our tongues danced - not a waltz or a minuet, but a war dance, a death dance of bone drums and screaming fiddles.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

Pat Buchanan

#20. Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

William Shakespeare

#21. In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

Daymond John

#22. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

Matthew De Abaitua

#23. God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone.

Peter Benchley

#24. If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

George Bernard Shaw