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Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort at the least and death at the other end ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.
Lillian Hellman
Vice stirs up war virtue fights.
Vauvenargues
In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F Kennedy
The weak against the strong Is always in the wrong.
Ivan Krylov
But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy.
Horatio Nelson
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.
Mao Tse-Tung
What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
Sun Tzu
Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Joseph Heller
War is the national industry of Prussia.
Mirabeau
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.
Latin proverb
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
Norman Cousins
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.
Duke of Wellington
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
John Ciardi
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Boake Carter
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will
It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.
Lewis Carroll
No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
John Foster Dulles
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin
If they want peace nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. People court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom to be relieved of fear and frustration.
Nels F. S. Ferre
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
They will conquer but they will not convince.
Miguel de Unamuno
We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
William Shakespeare
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Lewis Carroll
We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air 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.
Winston Churchill
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime.
R. I. Fitzhenry
War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.
Georges Clémenceau
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Georges Clémenceau
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
David Ormsby Gore
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Buckminster Fuller
War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.
Northrop Frye
Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic the group-mind takes over.
Arthur Koestler
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
Anaïs Nin
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.
Henry Kissinger
Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.
Myra McPherson
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
Arthur Schlesinger
Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
Good things when short are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracián
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
Alan Bennett
If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand.
Bible
In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.
German Proverb
In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
Karl von Clausewitz
Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war.
Bernard Baruch
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."
Winston Churchill
Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.
Robert Burns
So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function no moral equivalent of war analogous as one might say to the mechanical equivalent of hate so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.
William James
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