108 result(s) for War Quotes.
"The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it."
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory."
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
"War is fear cloaked in courage."
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
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"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
"There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy."
"War is the science of destruction."
"There are no winners in war, only losers."
"The only way to win a war is to prevent it."
"Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society."
"War is sweet to those who have never experienced it."
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read."
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
"The sins of the fathers are to be laid upon the children."
"We make war that we may live in peace."
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"I see the earth, the sea, the sky; and me - but not a man like me."
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
"A soldier does not fight because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell."
"How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?"
"The deaths of the few are the biggest tragedies in war but the silence of the many is the worst of all."
"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."
"The only way to win World War III is to prevent it."
"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
"The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things."
"War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared."
"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory."
"War is cruel. There is no glory in it."
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."
"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
"The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums."
"The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power."
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good."
"It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle."
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
"War is what happens when language fails."
"Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages."
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."
"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
"War is hell."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means."
"War makes thieves and peace makes us honest."
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a marine and his rifle."
"The costs of war can never be measured in dollars alone."
"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
"A soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
"In war, victory is a fleeting thing; in peace, the legacy of courage endures."
"Every war is based on deception."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
"War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate."
"To make peace, one must be prepared for war."
"War does not come from nowhere; it is the result of unheeded grievances and injustices."
"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."
"All warfare is based on deception."
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
"There is no easy way to do it."
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
"Every war is based on misunderstanding."
"Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
"In war, there is no prize for the runner-up."
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism."
"Military glory is the dream of the unthinking."
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
"The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers. They are the ones who must face and endure the difficult moments."
"War is the art of destroying the enemy's will to fight."
"The unexamined life is not worth living, and the unexamined war is not worth fighting."
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