War Quotes and Sayings
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez
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War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin
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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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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 hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill
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An unjust peace is better than a just war. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. Salvador Dali
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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. Albert Einstein
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Albert Einstein
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Henry Ellis
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. Euripides
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. Francois Fenelon
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them. George Herbert
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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Napoleon Hill
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. Adolf Hitler
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover
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The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram Johnson
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I have not yet begun to fight! John Paul Jones
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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jeane Kirkpatrick
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann
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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. John Stuart Mill
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers
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Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. Colman McCarthy
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. George McGovern
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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. George McGovern
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. George Orwell
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. Albert Pike
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war. Plato
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Sweat saves blood. Erwin Rommel
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. Carl Sandburg
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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. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? Benjamin Spock
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Henry David Thoreau
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations. Barbara Tuchman
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All war is deception. Sun Tzu
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire
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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. William Westmoreland
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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. William Westmoreland
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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. Fred Woodworth
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War settles nothing. Dwight Eisenhower
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. Dwight Eisenhower
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. Dwight Eisenhower
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The sergeant is the Army. Dwight Eisenhower
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. Dwight Eisenhower
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight Eisenhower
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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. Dwight Eisenhower
