Quotes about blood

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

— Andrew Jackson

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

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

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Martin Luther

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

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

— George S. Patton

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

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

— Tertullian