War Quotes And Sayings

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War Quotes And Sayings


“You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.”
– Will Rogers

“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli

“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
– Bertrand Russell

“The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.”
– William Westmoreland

“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
Winston Churchill

“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
– Euripides

“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?”
– Joan Baez

“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.”
– Fred Woodworth

“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

“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.”
– Ulysses S. Grant

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
– Thomas Mann

“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
– Hiram Johnson

“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”
Napoleon Hill

“Sweat saves blood.”
– Erwin Rommel

“No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.”
– Henry A. Kissinger

“War is hell.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman

“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
– William Westmoreland

“I have not yet begun to fight!”
– John Paul Jones

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
– Jeannette Rankin

“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”
– Salvador Dali

“One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
– George Orwell

“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
– Carl Sandburg

“The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.”
– George McGovern

“To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.”
– Sarah Palin

“War makes thieves and peace hangs them.”
– George Herbert

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