War Quotes

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

War is organized murder, and nothing else.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

I believe it is peace for our time.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

We are on God's side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It's a war between God and the devil.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.