War Quotations

Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told...

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and...

Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease....

Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of...

Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war, or a bad...

Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and...

Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right - only...

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will...

Charles Sumner

Give me the money that has been spent in...

Colin Powell

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over...

Colman McCarthy

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a...

David Friedman

The direct use of force is such a poor...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every...

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor...

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without...

Francois Fenelon

All wars are civil wars, because all men are...

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live...

The best weapon against an enemy is another...

War is a series of catastrophes that results in...

War makes thieves and peace hangs...

George McGovern

I'm fed up to the ears with old men...

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is...

The object of war is not to die for...

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part...

What is human warfare but just this; an effort...

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that...

Older men declare war. But it is the youth...

Herbert V. Prochnow

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the...

The first casualty when war comes is...

If we don't end war, war will end...

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were...

We have war when at least one of the...

Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you...

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who...

Joan Baez

If it's natural to kill, how come men have...

I must study politics and war that my sons...

John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war...

John F. Kennedy

The basic problems facing the world today are not...

John F. Kennedy

War will exist until that distant day when the...

John P. Jones

I have not yet begun to...

John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest...

Joseph Stalin

The death of one man is a tragedy. The...

Linda Vester

But for the first time in many years, I...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

An unjust peace is better than a just...

Maria Montessori

If education is always to be conceived along the...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in...

Napoleon Bonaparte

A soldier will fight long and hard for a...

Napoleon Hill

War grows out of the desire of the individual...

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the...

Omar N. Bradley

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical...

Omar N. Bradley

The way to win an atomic war is to...

Paul Farmer

Since I do not believe that there should be...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may know how to gain a victory, and...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man has no right to kill his brother. It...

Dana Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of the...

Richard M. Nixon

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is...

Robert E. Lee

What a cruel thing is war... to fill our...

Ronald Reagan

I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just...

Salvador Dali

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who...

Stanley Baldwin

War would end if the dead could...

Steven Cojocaru

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue,...

Thomas A. Edison

There will one day spring from the brain of...

Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems...

Ulysses S. Grant

I have never advocated war except as a means...

Voltaire

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are...

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start...

Will Rogers

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war...

Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may...