War Quotes

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.“It's the mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.”We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore forest fires. Oil spills. Serial killers.

Chuck Palahniuk

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

Glenn Greenwald

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President George Herbert Walker Bush. This fairly routine political event took on sudden significance when, on the evening before the talks were scheduled to begin, Saddam Hussein announced that the independent state of Kuwait had, by virtue of a massive deployment of military force, become a part of Iraq. We were not to know that this act—and the name Saddam Hussein—would dominate international politics for the next decade and more, but it was still possible to witness something extraordinary: the sight of Mrs. Thatcher publicly inserting quantities of lead into George Bush’s pencil. The spattering quill of a Ralph Steadman would be necessary to do justice to such a macabre yet impressive scene.

Christopher Hitchens

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Tacitus

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Homer

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Thomas Jefferson

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

We don't want to fight but by jingo if we do We've got the ships we've got the men we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

I have prayed in her fields of poppies I have laughed with the men who died - But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands In the battle's glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand.

Gordon Johnstone

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

Bonar Law

0 God assist our side: at least avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

Rouget de Lisle

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

James Russell Lowell

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

Wars and rumours of wars.

Matthew

And this I hate - not men nor flag nor race But only War with its wild grinning face.

Joseph Dana Miler

When after many battles past Both tir'd with blows make peace at last What is it after all the people get? Why! taxes widows wooden legs and debt.

The brazen throat of war.

God how the dead men Grin by the wall Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.

O war! thou son of Hell!

William Shakespeare

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

Felix Frankfurter

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

Anonymous

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

William Thomas Cummings

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

William T. Sherman

There will be no veterans of World War III.

War is the science of destruction.

John S.C. Abbott

The inevitableness the idealism and the blessing of war as an indispensable and stimulating law of development must be repeatedly emphasized.

Anonymous

Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Otto von Bismarck

War never leaves where it found a nation.

Veni vidi vici. (I came I saw I conquered.)

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

Otto von Bismarck

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

Thomas Campbell

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.

William Ellery Channing

General Taylor never surrenders.

Thomas L. Crittenden

We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it.

General Croghan

War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hang yourself brave Crillon. We fought at Arques and you were not there.

Henry IV

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

The object of war is to survive it.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Duke of Wellington

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

War is the trade of kings.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Duke of Wellington

It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.

Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Homer

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