War Quotes

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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

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

The great object is that every man be armed.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

War is hell.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.