Memorable Famous Quotes About War

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"War does not determine who is right—only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
"There is no glory in war, only suffering."
Isaac Asimov
"All war is based on deception."
Sun Tzu
"War makes thieves and peaceful men."
Proverb
"In war, victory is not just the goal, it is the method."
Bertolt Brecht
"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"All war is deception."
Sun Tzu
"The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers."
General George S. Patton
"There are few things more dangerous than a man who has been humiliated."
Ronald Reagan
"In war, the only principle is that you can't change the rules."
Kurt Vonnegut
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and wisdom of its leaders is a nation afraid of its people."
Henry Wallace
"War brings out the true character of people, for better or worse."
Unknown
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things."
John Stuart Mill
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin
"I'm not a politician. I’m a soldier. And soldiers fight."
Colin Powell
"The soldier’s most powerful weapon is his mind."
General William C. Westmoreland
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."
Emile Chartier
"Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind."
Lao Tzu
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"War is an instrument entirely governed by the spirit of the times."
Carl von Clausewitz
"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."
Adlai Stevenson
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Franklin P. Adams
"War is always a saga of loss."
Ruth C. Dunn
"War does not determine who is right — only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
Thomas Mann
"War is just a continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash."
Douglas MacArthur
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
G.K. Chesterton
"The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on."
Joseph Heller
"There is no example in history where a war has solved a problem."
Eugene V. Debs
"Wars are not won by evacuations."
Winston Churchill
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
Ulysses S. Grant
"War makes thieves and peace makes honest men."
George Herbert
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"The best way to win an argument is to be right. The best way to win a war is to be quiet."
Author Unknown
"It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor."
Eric Hoffer
"In war, the first casualty is truth."
Aeschylus
"War is also the most expensive thing on Earth. Right now, we have more money for war than we have for peace."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"There are no winners in war, only survivors."
Unknown
"Let us pray that peace be now and evermore our goal."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"A soldier is a man who is sworn to defend the country’s honor, even at the cost of his own life."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it."
George Orwell
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
George Orwell
"War is business. That's why it's so profitable."
Anonymous
"The greatest weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every war is based on miscommunication."
Susannah Thompson
"War makes thieves and peace brings them to justice."
Augustus de Morgan
"The ravages of war cannot be repaired."
Pope John Paul II
"If we don’t end war, war will end us."
H.G. Wells
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."
Dorothy Thompson
"A soldier's pack is not a purse, but a coffin."
Anonymous
"In war, there is no prize for the runner-up."
Anonymous
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
Thomas Mann
"There is no such thing as an unwounded soldier."
Anonymous
"War is fear cloaked in courage."
William Westmoreland
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
George Orwell
"War does not determine who is right; war determines who is left."
Anonymous
"The best armor is getting hit without feeling it."
Anonymous
"There should be no war. It should never be necessary."
Aldous Huxley
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
José Narosky
"War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
Herodotus
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
Herbert Hoover
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato
"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
Georges Clemenceau
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sun Tzu
"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter its justification, it is always a tragedy."
Mark K. Updegrove
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Friedrich Hegel
"War is what happens when language fails."
Abraham Lincoln
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson
"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"In war, the stronger man is the one who is able to endure."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
Ronald Reagan
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"War is the only alternative to peace, and the peace that does not end with war does not begin with it."
Victor Hugo
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
Erasmus
"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."
Marvin Gaye
"To you, who are the great men of war and have lived through its horrors, I would say this: War is a crime against humanity."
Rod Serling
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
Sun Tzu
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