War & Peace Quotes

War should be the only study of a prince.

Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack, and then they attack others.

Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action!

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.

We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

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

We cannot be both the world�s leading champion of peace and the world�s leading supplier of arms.

If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.

There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.