Good quotes about War: Some of the best great quotes about War
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. – John Adams
John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? – Joan Baez
War would end if the dead could return. – Stanley Baldwin
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. – Omar N. Bradley
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. – Omar N. Bradley
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. – Stuart Chase
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. – Winston Churchill
An unjust peace is better than a just war. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? – Gregory Clark
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? – Norman Cousins
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. – Salvador Dali
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. – Thomas A. Edison
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. – Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. – Albert Einstein
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Henry Ellis
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. – Euripides
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! – David G. Farragut
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. – Francois Fenelon
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. – David Friedman
Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia. – George Pickett Gettysburg
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. – Ulysses S. Grant
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway
In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. – Napoleon Hill
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. – Adolf Hitler
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
The first casualty when war comes is truth. – Hiram Johnson
I have not yet begun to fight! – John Paul Jones
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – John F. Kennedy
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. – John F. Kennedy
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