War Quotes
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We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine, But he that flieth in good tide Perhaps may fight again. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
He who flies at the right time can fight again. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. (Quote by - Charles Francis Adams)
Both Regiments or none. (Quote by - Samuel Adams)
'Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay. (Quote by - Samuel James Adams)
My voice is still for war. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Fighting men are the city's fortress. (Quote by - Alcaeus)
Fifty-four forty, or fight. (Quote by - William Allen)
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. (Quote by - Archilochus)
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? (Quote by - Archilochus)
Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. (Quote by - Aristides)
We make war that we may live in peace. (Quote by - Aristides)
They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun; Never a groan but God has harkened, Counting their cruelties one by one. (Quote by - Katharine Lee Bates)
O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. (Quote by - Ethel Lynn Beers)
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on. (Quote by - Janet Begbie)
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks! (Quote by - Pierre Jean de Beranger)
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. (Quote by - Friedrich von Bernhardi)
All's fair in love and war. (Quote by - Francis Edward Smedley)
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. (Quote by - Tzu Sun)
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. (Quote by - Anonymous)
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)
The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized. (Quote by - Thomas Vian)
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. (Quote by - Dame Rebecca West)
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The real war will never get in the books. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Only the winners decide what were war crimes. (Quote by - Gary Wills)
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat. (Quote by - Robert Anton Wilson)
Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride; Pride begets prejudice; Prejudice begets war; War begets poverty. (Quote by - Proverb)
Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they? (Quote by - Erwin Rommel)
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. (Quote by - William T. Sherman)
DepLeted uranium is a warcrime in progress. Doug Rokke appointed by Norman Schwarzkopf as commander of a cleanup crew of several hundred, 30 of whom have died of cancer. (Quote by - Doug Rokke)
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
War is the unfolding of miscalculations. (Quote by - Barbara W. Tuchman)
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. (Quote by - French Proverb)
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention. (Quote by - Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! (Quote by - David G. Farragut)
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. (Quote by - Thucydides)
An unjust peace is better than a just war. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. (Quote by - Jose Narosky)
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. (Quote by - Colonel Samuel Prescott)
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us. (Quote by - Gamel Abdel Nasser)
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. (Quote by - John A. Fisher)
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. (Quote by - Ulysses S. Grant)
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. (Quote by - Andrew B. Law)
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. (Quote by - Arthur Ponsonby)
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. War settles nothing. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. (Quote by - John Parker)
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. (Quote by - Jeane J. Kirkpatrick)
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. (Quote by - James Rado)
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. (Quote by - Fred Woodworth)
The next World War will be fought with stones. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come. (Quote by - Peter Muhlenberg)
Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare. (Quote by - Charles H. Maskins)
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. (Quote by - George Mcgovern)
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
War is the science of destruction. (Quote by - John Abbott)
It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it. (Quote by - Robert E. Lee)
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. (Quote by - Louis Lecoin)
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. (Quote by - Colman Mccarthy)
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. (Quote by - Voltaire)
War is hell. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? (Quote by - Joan Baez)
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. (Quote by - Stuart Chase)
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. (Quote by - Francis Meehan)
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (Quote by - John Adams)
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. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. (Quote by - Henry Fosdick)
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. (Quote by - Henry Havelock Ellis)
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. (Quote by - Hermann Hagedorn)
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
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. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
