War Quotes

» The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

» The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

» 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.

» War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

» War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

» War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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

» What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

» War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

» Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

» Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

» Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

» The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

» 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.

» We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

» Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

» In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

» Sweat saves blood.

» Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

» All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

» Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

» 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.

» The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

» War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

» I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

» 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.

» To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

» The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

» No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

» What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

» There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

» Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

» A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

» In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

» If we don't end war, war will end us.

» The first casualty when war comes is truth.

» John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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

» You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

» When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

» If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

» I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

» War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

» The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

» Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

» I have not yet begun to fight!

» 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.

» The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

» An unjust peace is better than a just war.

» One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

» A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

» War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

» 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?

» The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

» Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

» One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

» 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.

» Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

» What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

» Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

» War would end if the dead could return.

» All war is deception.

» There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

» War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

» I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

» It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

» I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

» The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

» You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

» We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

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