Quotes About War
1. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. – Albert Einstein
2. One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. – Albert Einstein
4. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender. – Winston Churchill
6. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill
7. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill
8. When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. – Winston Churchill
9. Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy
10. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – John F. Kennedy
11. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. – George S. Patton
12. War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Bertrand Russell
13. The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. – John F. Kennedy
14. The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
15. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway
16. There was never a good war, or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin
17. It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. – Voltaire
18. When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre
19. All war is deception. – Sun Tzu
20. Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
21. 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. – John Stuart Mill
22. What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. – Henry David Thoreau
23. In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
24. If we don’t end war, war will end us. – H. G. Wells
25. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. – John Adams
26. There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. – Thomas A. Edison
27. There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. – Sun Tzu
28. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. – Napoleon Bonaparte
29. You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way. – Will Rogers
30. Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
31. In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. – Herodotus
32. War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. – Napoleon Hill
33. There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. – Niccolo Machiavelli
34. I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. – George McGovern
35. It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee
36. Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. – Bertrand Russell
37. Only the dead have seen the end of the war. – George Santayana
38. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. – Douglas MacArthur
39. All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. – Francois Fenelon
40. We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
41. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. – Omar N. Bradley
42. To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. – George Orwell
43. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
44. An unjust peace is better than a just war. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
45. Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. – Euripides
46. Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. – Salvador Dali
47. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. – Henry A. Kissinger
48. John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov
49. The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars. – William Westmoreland
50. War is a defeat for humanity. – Pope John Paul II
51. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
52. Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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