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Famous War Quotes

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

Deep War Quotes

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

George Bernard Shaw

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

War Quotes From History

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Phyllis Schlafly

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Walter Jon Williams

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Stephen Ambrose

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

Gustav Stresemann

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Christiane Amanpour

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Will Durant

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

Xavier Becerra

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

John M. McHugh

More War Quotes

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Thomas Jefferson

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

John F. Kennedy

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Thomas Jefferson

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Thomas Jefferson

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Anthony Trollope

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Stephen Ambrose

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

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

Albert Einstein

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mohandas Gandhi

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Thomas Jefferson

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Lyndon B. Johnson

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

Howard Dean

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Herodotus

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

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Golda Meir

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

Albert Einstein

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Cyril Connolly

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

John Adams

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

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