War Quotes and Sayings
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams
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When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue. Prince Andrew
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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
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez
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War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin
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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. Omar N. Bradley
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. Anatole Broyard
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill
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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
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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. Winston Churchill
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An unjust peace is better than a just war. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. Salvador Dali
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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
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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
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Henry Ellis
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. Euripides
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. Francois Fenelon
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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
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. Ulysses S. Grant
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them. George Herbert
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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus
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War is the symptom, not the disease. L. M. Heroux
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Napoleon Hill
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover
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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. Charles Evans Hughes
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The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram Johnson
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I have not yet begun to fight! John Paul Jones
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. John F. Kennedy
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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
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories. Vanessa Kerry
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. Black Kettle
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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.
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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jeane Kirkpatrick
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. Henry A. Kissinger
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It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. Douglas MacArthur
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Niccolo Machiavelli
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. George McGovern
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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
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. John Stuart Mill
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. George Orwell
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. Lester B. Pearson
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. Albert Pike
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. Herbert V. Prochnow
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers
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Sweat saves blood. Erwin Rommel
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. Carl Sandburg
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war. George Santayana
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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. William Tecumseh Sherman
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War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? Benjamin Spock
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations. Barbara Tuchman
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All war is deception. Sun Tzu
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. Sun Tzu
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire
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If we don't end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells
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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
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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. William Westmoreland
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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
