War Quotes

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Take away the sword; States can be saved without it.

Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton

I see that these people know nothing about war.

al-Walid, Khalid ibn

I am the son of many chiefs. My sword is sharp and terrible. It is the mightiest of things when the pot of war boils fiercely.

al-Walid, Khalid ibn

I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty.

Christopher Jordan Dorner

Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

James Earl Carter, Jr.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

Orson Scott Card

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.

Thomas Carlyle

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

Smedley Darlington Butler

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

Smedley Darlington Butler

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Smedley Darlington Butler

There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war.

Samuel Butler

In this different kind of war, we may never sit down at a peace table. But make no mistake about it, we are winning, and we will win.

George Walker Bush