War Quotes

My sentence is for open war.

I war not with the dead.

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

In war, only the simple succeeds.

I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can!

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

We don't want wars even when we win.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

War makes rattling good history.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a 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.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But if your heart is already awakened, Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.