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.
Georges Clemenceau
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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.
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.
Benjamin Franklin
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
You can't say civilization isn't advancing in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
All oppression creates a state of war. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Carl von Clausewitz
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
Grace Hopper
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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.
George Orwell
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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.
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.
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.
Otto von Bismarck
The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower