Quotes about War

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

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!

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.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

The stronger we are, the less likely a war is.

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

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

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

War. War never changes.

Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.

The loneliness does not come from the war. The war did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the war.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Too easily, words of war become acts of war.

No longer certain, that one ever does win a war, I am. For in fighting the battles, the bloodshed, already lost we have.

Never stop war by taking part in one.

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

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.

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

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

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.