Quotes
Quotes about War
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. â¢Hyman Rickover A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. â¢Sir Winston Churchill 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 as often as you can, and keep moving on.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. â¢Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. â¢Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. â¢Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. â¢William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
DepLeted uranium is a warcrime in progress. Doug Rokke appointed by Norman Schwarzkopf as commander of a cleanup crew of several hundred, 30 of whom have died of cancer http://indymedia.org.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to 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.
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
