Warlike Quotes

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.