Memorable Famous War Quotes

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"In war, there is no substitute for victory."
Douglas MacArthur
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."
Robert E. Lee
"All war is based on deception."
Sun Tzu
"You can no more win a War than you can win an earthquake."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"War is life multiplied by some number that no one has yet been able to fathom."
William James
"The soldiers won the war, but the politicians get the credit."
Unknown
"What is a soldier? It is a man who leaves his home and loved ones behind to be killed."
Unknown
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"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
Gerry Spence
"The laws of war are not dictated by that which is in the best interest of humanity; they are dictated by the need for survival."
Unknown
"Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is the presence of justice."
Jane Addams
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a poet."
Louis MacNeice
"When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"In war, there is no prize for the runner-up."
General Omar N. Bradley
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
H. L. Mencken
"Wars are not won by evacuations."
Winston S. Churchill
"In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is easier to make war than to make peace."
Georges Clemenceau
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway
"There is no such thing as an innocent bystander."
Kurt Vonnegut
"What is past is prologue."
William Shakespeare
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"The greatest weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"War always brings with it a great burden of suffering and hardship."
Ban Zhao
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
"War is a series of catastrophes that produces a lot of living heroes."
Maximilien Robespierre
"To have good soldiers, you must also be a good general."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Joseph Heller
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
George Orwell
"War does not determine who is right — only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
Robert E. Lee
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
Herodotus
"War is a terrible thing, but it is an honorable thing."
John F. Kennedy
"The first casualty of war is truth."
Aeschylus
"In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor."
Plato
"There is no glory in war, only suffering."
Gore Vidal
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"War makes thieves and peace makes us honest."
Thomas Fuller
"The hard part is gonna be having to live with the consequences of the things we've done."
John M. Keating
"The only way to win a world war is to end it before it starts."
John C. Reilly
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
George Washington
"War is like love; it always finds a way."
Bertolt Brecht
"All is fair in love and war."
Francis Edward Smedley
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."
Dorothy Thompson
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Arab Proverb
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
Abraham Lincoln
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
José Ortega y Gasset
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
Herbert Hoover
"The greatest tragedy of the battlefield is that it brings into the market place the things that are valuable beyond price."
Winston Churchill
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."
Sun Tzu
"All warfare is based on deception."
Sun Tzu
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
Richard Nixon
"In modern war, there are no victors; only victims."
Winston Churchill
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato
"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind."
Lao Tzu
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
Douglas MacArthur
"The wicked are deeper than the war."
Carl Jung
"A nation that forgets its past has no future."
Winston Churchill
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."
Winston Churchill
"The best way to win in battle is to avoid it."
Vivekananda
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
Winston Churchill
"A peace treaty is not the end of a war; it is the beginning of the next one."
Winston Churchill
"The hardest thing about being a soldier is that you often don't know when you have won."
George Patton
"The most effective weapon is the human soul on fire."
Ferdinand Foch
"The old saying 'A battle won is a battle half lost' is often wrong. A battle lost is often a chance more to win."
Bram Stoker
"In war, there is no prize for the second place."
General Omar N. Bradley
"War is hell."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
Sun Tzu
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
Sun Tzu
"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
General Douglas MacArthur
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sun Tzu
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Victory usually goes to those who have a stronghold, whether it is spiritual, moral or material."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
Thomas Mann
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
General George S. Patton
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
Aeschylus
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
Ronald Reagan
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"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 not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington
"There is no glory in war. It is a lost cause."
Kurt Vonnegut
"If we don't end war, war will end us."
H.G. Wells
"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
Georges Clemenceau
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristide Briand
"We make war that we may live in peace."
Aristotle
"The first casualty of war is innocence."
Philip Caputo
"War is simply the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John F. Kennedy
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