War Quotes on Conflict & Humanity – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Sallust

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

George Washington

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Phyllis Schlafly

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Helen Thomas

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oriana Fallaci

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Lord Mountbatten

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Ernie Pyle

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

Benjamin Franklin

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

Doc Hastings

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Andrew Cuomo

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

Wendell Willkie

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

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

Peter DeFazio

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Richard Cobden

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

Thomas Hardy

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

George S. Patton

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Elihu Root

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

Michael N. Castle

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Bruce Jackson

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

John Dingell

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Ron Paul

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Chaka Fattah

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

Cindy Sheehan

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

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

Sun Tzu

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

Harry S. Truman

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Elizabeth I

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Thomas Hobbes

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Robert Toombs

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

Andrei Platonov

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry A. Kissinger

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

Dennis Hastert

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

Ralph Steadman

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Leo Tolstoy

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

Charles de Secondat