War Quotes

"The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television."

"War is the epitome of hell for all involved. I know because I have been there and back."

"As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not."

"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost."

"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people."

"This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

"When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise."

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."

"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."

"A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative."

"What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion."

"Serious sport is war minus the shooting."

"All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war."

"I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War."

"If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."

"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."

"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause."

"War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale."

"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

"To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights."

"I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war."

"We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla."

"I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war."

"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."

"We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering."

"We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn't have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil War and post-World War II, are gone."

"The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side."

"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."

"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will."

"We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War."

"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition."

"As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious."

"The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon."

"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."

"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."

"War is a contagion."

"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction."

"The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument."

"The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it."

"We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began."

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."

"Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24."

"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."