The best Quotes and Sayings about War

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.

This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

Sometimes, a truce is the most important part of a war.

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

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

Kill a few hundred people, they make you a lord. Kill a few thousand, they make you king.

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

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

If you can't aim for peace, aim between the eyes.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

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

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Tell me something, do you still believe good soldiers make good kings?

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

What honor can we find on a battlefield while our people starve?

Starting a war drains both sides.

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters.

Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death. To break this vicious circle one must do more than just act without any thought or doubt.

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

War. War never changes.

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fight in it.

You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.

I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.