War Quotes
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.
not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
