Quotations on Blood

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

~ Don Marquis

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

~ Benito Mussolini

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

~ Austin O'Malley

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

~ Martin Luther

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears."

~ Charles F. Kettering

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

~ Tertullian

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

~ Padraic Pearse

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

~ Andrew Jackson

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

~ Charles Kingsley