War Quotes

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

All war is deception.

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

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

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

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hill…

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.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.