War Quotes

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

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

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Sweat saves blood.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

War is hell.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

I have not yet begun to fight!

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

War remains the decisive human failure.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

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

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

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

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