War Quotes

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

War remains the decisive human failure.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

An army marches on its stomach.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

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

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.