War Quotes

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

The great object is that every man be armed.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Conquered, we conquer.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

I have not yet begun to fight!

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

War is the science of destruction.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Sweat saves blood.

All warfare is based on deception.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

War is a defeat for humanity.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

An army marches on its stomach.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

War would end if the dead could return.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.