War Quotes - page 2

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. (Robert E. Lee)
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. View quote
Carl Sandburg
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. View quote
George Washington
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. View quote
Rebecca West
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. View quote
Woody Allen
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
You can't say civilization isn't advancing in every war they kill you in a new way. View quote
Will Rogers
All oppression creates a state of war. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. View quote
Grace Hopper
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Accurst be he that first invented war. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. View quote
George Orwell
Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. View quote
George Orwell
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. (H. L. Mencken)
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. View quote
Victor Hugo
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. View quote
Winston Churchill
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower