War Quotes

"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."

"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came."

"The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory."

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."

"Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity."

"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."

"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."

"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."

"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative."

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

"War makes strange bedfellows."

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."

"'War Eagle' is like 'I love you.'"

"I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya."

"Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate."

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."

"War would end if the dead could return."

"An army marches on its stomach."

"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."

"We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will."

"We must take the profit out of war."

"Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II."

"I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war."

"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."

"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."

"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."

"I will not agree to go to war in the Donbass. I know there are a lot of hotheads, especially those who hold rallies and say, 'Let's go fight and win it all back!' But at what price? What is the cost? It's another story of lives and land. And I won't do it."

"For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road."

"Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult."

"In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations."

"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

"I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery."

"That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war."

"I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have."

"I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war."

"Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy."

"Britain and America are always kind of at war with the Middle East in some way. And you've got Omid Djalili who is clearly an Iranian and very proud of his heritage, yet he is a very unique voice. He kind of belongs to Britain because he had a BBC show, but at the same time he hasn't rejected his Middle Eastern roots."

"I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers."

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

"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."

"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't."

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

"Doing nothing in the face of aggression is how World War III will eventually start."

"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it."

"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."

"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."