War Quotes

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

War is not nice.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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 person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.