War Quotes

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

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

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.