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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
— Adam Nicolson
The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
— Ellen Glasgow
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.
— Sun Tzu
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
— Thucydides
The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself.
— Stacy Schiff
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
— Dustin Hoffman
I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
— Douglas MacArthur
It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state.
— Harper Lee
One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.
— Mark Millar
Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.
— Helen Simonson
You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.
— Graham Hancock
It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.
— Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
Cuz that's it -
That's the nasty, nasty secret of war -
When yer winning -
When yer winning, it's effing thrilling - — Patrick Ness
That's the nasty, nasty secret of war -
When yer winning -
When yer winning, it's effing thrilling - — Patrick Ness
It makes no since to fight a war that is already won.
— Angela Brown
I guess the higher up on the food chain you go, the admiration isn't just for the hungry, but for the ones that go the extra mile to take a bite.
— Angela Richardson
If you dig into it, it comes back to you. That's the way war is.
— Laura Hillenbrand
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
— Scott Ritter
Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.
— Roma Tearne
Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
— Winston S. Churchill
It's war that makes generals
— Seth Godin
To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.
— Shannon L. Alder
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
— Abraham Lincoln
I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.
— Henry V. O'Neil
The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say ... 'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'
— Arthur Fremantle
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
— Winston Churchill
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
— Michael Morpurgo
There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
— Hans Rosling
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. — William Shakespeare
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. — William Shakespeare
One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.
— Hojo Shigetoki
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved
— Juan Manuel Santos
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
— Chester W. Nimitz
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
— Felix Frankfurter
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
— Jacqueline Winspear
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
— Red Auerbach
I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
— Angelina Jolie
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
— George S. Patton Jr.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
— Josephine Baker
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.
— Hideki Tojo
Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.
— William Mulock
We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.
— Justin Raimondo
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
— Michel De Montaigne
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
— Edward Kennedy
I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
— John Frederick Maurice
That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.
— Kathy Hepinstall
This was war: a vast machine that chewed up people.
— Michael Pryor
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
— Ernst Zundel
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
— H.G.Wells
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.
— Michael Poeltl
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
— Sophia Loren
I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.
— Jorja Fox
I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.
— Stonewall Jackson
Lo! A call for a bloody trial-
Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi
Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi
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
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
— Clint Eastwood
But that's the thing: when you swear to take someone's side no matter what, sometimes you have to go to war for them.
— Leila Sales
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
— Golda Meir
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
— Wilfred Owen
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
— Duke Of Wellington
What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.
— A.J. Vega
As long as our voiced were in harmony, it didn't matter that our accents were at war.
— Carsten Jensen
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.
— Barbara Holland
I believes that economy is some kind of running war and the market is the battle field , So security is mandatory.
— Mohamed Saadi
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
— Leo Tolstoy
Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism.
— Mohsin Hamid
I have so many books on my shelves that I can now start a war with some country and have supplies for years to come throwing books at its citizens!
— Ibrahim Ibrahim
War is the worst thing that can happen to us, it is worse than a disease; it set our hearts on fire and burns our souls to dust.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
There was nothing that could prepare a person for discovering they were a pawn in a war between mythical beings. Unless you know ... you were Frodo.
— Samantha Young
It is a comfort to know that, regardless of our mistakes, the God who loved, forgave, and empowered David does the same for us.
— Cliff Graham
I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.
— Ted Turner
I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't.
— Arthur Golden
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
— Ron Paul
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
— Wendell Berry
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
— Umberto Eco
Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
— Kim Jong-un
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
— Ahad Ha'am
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
— Jonathan Demme