Good War Quotes

This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

There is no good war.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

War makes rattling good history.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

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

It is the good war that hallows every cause.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!

There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

People say the war in Iraq is a bad war, and the war in Afghanistan is a good war, but what's the difference between them? Democratic people around the world cannot accept that this is a good war. This is just endless war.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.