War Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

The weak against the strong Is always in the wrong.

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.

War is like love it always finds a way.

The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

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.

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.

Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

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.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand.

Bible

In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.

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.

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.

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.

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.

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