War Quotes

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

  John Adams

• 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

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

  Joan Baez

• 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

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

  Omar N. Bradley

• 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

• 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

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

  Francois Fenelon

• 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

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

  Ernest Hemingway

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

  Ernest Hemingway

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

  Adolf Hitler

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

  Herbert Hoover

• War would end if the dead could return.

  Stanley Baldwin

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

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• An unjust peace is better than a just war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

  Salvador Dali

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Henry Ellis

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

  Euripides

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

  Benjamin Franklin

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

  Ulysses S. Grant

• War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

  George Herbert

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

  Herodotus

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

  Napoleon Hill

• I have not yet begun to fight!

  John Paul Jones

• It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

  Robert E. Lee

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

  Colman McCarthy

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

  George Orwell

• The first casualty when war comes is truth.

  Hiram Johnson

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

  John F. Kennedy

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

  John F. Kennedy

• 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

• 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.

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

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

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

  Thomas Mann

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

  George McGovern

• 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

• 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

• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  George S. Patton

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

  Will Rogers

• 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

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

  Albert Pike

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

  Herbert V. Prochnow

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

  Jeannette Rankin

• Sweat saves blood.

  Erwin Rommel

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

  Bertrand Russell

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

  Bertrand Russell

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

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

  Carl Sandburg

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

  George Santayana

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

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

  Joseph Stalin

• 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

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  Barbara Tuchman

• All war is deception.

  Sun Tzu

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

  H. G. Wells

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Voltaire

• 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

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

  William Westmoreland

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