Military War Quotes
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
Know the enemy and know yourself.
— Sun Tzu
They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
— Charles De Gaulle
Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.
— George S. Patton
I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine.
— David Bellavia
They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.
— David Jones
Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.
— Helmut Schmidt
Laws are inoperative in war
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
— George S. Patton
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.
— Elizabeth Samet
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
— Seneca The Younger
Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.
— David Bellavia
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
— Milton Friedman
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
— Bob Woodward
The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.
— Merrill McPeak
The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
— William J. Clinton
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
— Roseanne Barr
I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.
— Michel Templet
We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.
— Chris Womersley
Now comes the reign of iron - and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.
— John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren
During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.
— Sara Sheridan
The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.
— Menachem Begin
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
— George Washington
Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.
— Myra MacPherson
With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.
— Tim O'Brien
In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
— Omar N. Bradley
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.
— John J. Pershing
No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.
— Ashly Lorenzana
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war.
— Chesty Puller
I make war on the living, not the dead.
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
— Peter DeFazio
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
— Chester W. Nimitz
I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.
— Lindsey Graham
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— Steve Sheinkin
We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested.
— Daniel Rodriguez
Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.
— Thomas C. Schelling
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.
— A.J. Muste
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
— Albert Einstein
Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.
— Jim Walton
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
— George C. Marshall
Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power
— Fela Durotoye
Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.
— John Yoo
Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.
— Paul Fussell
Artillery is the god of war.
— Joseph Stalin
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.
— Lord Mountbatten
In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.
— Michael Mullen
Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.
— Corinne Maier
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
— Marshall McLuhan
In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
— Thomas Jefferson
I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.
— Michel Templet
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
— William C. Westmoreland
Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.
— Melissa Seligman
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
— Herodotus
A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.
— Paul Yingling
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
— Sebastian Junger
The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.
— George W. Bush
The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.
— Philip Caputo
The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.
— John J. Pershing
War makes persons special, peoples cheap.
— Brian Spellman
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.
— Kari Martindale
If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.
— Craig Nelson
The leader must be an actor.
— George S. Patton
You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
— George S. Patton
I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?
— Jim Sheeler
It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
— Douglas MacArthur
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
— Theodore L. Cuyler
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
— George Stillman Hillard
For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.
— David Jones
War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.
— Shannon A. Thompson
