War Quotes - page 5

All the gods are dead except the god of war. (Eldridge Cleaver)
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The first casualty when war comes is truth. View quote
Hiram Johnson
All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war. View quote
George Carlin
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. View quote
Colin Powell
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. (Isoroku Yamamoto)
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! View quote
Georg Büchner
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. View quote
Robert Aumann
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. View quote
Montesquieu
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. View quote
Norman Mailer
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. View quote
William S. Burroughs
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war. View quote
Gertrude Stein
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
There are laws for peace as well as war. (Livy)
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war. View quote
Livy
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. View quote
Omar Bradley
You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done. View quote
John le Carré
There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't. View quote
John le Carré