No War Quotes

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

All war is based on deception.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!

We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

A true man hates no one.

I done told you twice already goddammit no!