Famous War Quotes
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Jaw jaw is better than war war.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Alfred Nobel’s discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The war? I can't find it too terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!
All is fair in love and war.