No War Quotes

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

All policies allowed in war and love.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

War among men defiles this world.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

We need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars that don't keep America safe.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

War makes rattling good history.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

War ought to be no man's wish.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required

Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.

I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

Wars are begun by frightened men.