Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.“I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.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 is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.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.A wise king never seeks out war, but he must always be ready for it.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.A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.Only the dead have seen the end 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.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.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.Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.Only the dead have seen the end of war.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.1
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.War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.There's a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare, and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history – is the will of a single man.Some say war is hell. But war isn't hell. For in hell, the innocent are spared.A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.Too easily, words of war become acts of war.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.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.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.Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.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.Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.War swallowed gold like a pit in the earth.It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.Starting a war drains both sides.You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity.
