War & Peace Quotes

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Wars are seldom caused by spontaneous hatreds between people, for peoples in general are too ignorant of one another to have grievances and too indifferent to what goes on beyond their borders to plan conquests. They must be urged to the slaughter by politicians who know how to alarm them.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

You don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.