War Quotes - page 4

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. (Al Capone)
War is a contagion. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. View quote
Winston Churchill
The real war will never get in the books. View quote
Walt Whitman
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' View quote
Immanuel Kant
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The war is won, but the peace is not. View quote
Albert Einstein
A bad peace is even worse than war. View quote
Tacitus
In times of war, the law falls silent. View quote
Cicero
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war. View quote
Homer
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. (Sun Tzu)
We make war that we might live in peace. View quote
Aristotle
But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. View quote
U Thant
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. View quote
Thomas Paine
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (Douglas MacArthur)
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. View quote
George Soros
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill". View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington