WAR

WAR

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

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

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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.
Albert Einstein

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.
William Westmoreland

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

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

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

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells

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

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

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

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

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.
Fred Woodworth
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.
Isaac Asimov

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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

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.
Omar N. Bradley

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

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

Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel

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

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

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

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.
George McGovern

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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.
Winston Churchill

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

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?
Benjamin Spock

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland

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

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

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

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar N. Bradley

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin

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.
Thomas A. Edison

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

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

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

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike

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.
John Stuart Mill

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

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

War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali