War & Peace Quotes

Strength lies not in defense but in attack.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

Short-circuiting the long-established principles of patient negotiation leads to war, not peace.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain, will never rise to fight again.

It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.

The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

Either war is obsolete or men are.