War Quotes

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
A. J. P. Taylor

Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
Brooks Atkinson

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
Chris Hedges

In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Boake Carter

War is not one disaster of milions of people. War is milions of disasters of one person.
Hans van Mierlo

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Karl von Clausewitz

Every war is a national misfortune
Helmeth Von Moltke

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations
Barbara W. Tuchman

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states
Donald Kagan

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

The victory of a war is not determined by the size of an army or the quality of armaments. Factors like unshakable determination, heroism, and desire for liberation determine victory.

That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.







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