War Quotes

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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway

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 David Eisenhower

Mankind must put an end to war before man puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

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 D. Eisenhower

Don’t talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.
Lord Kitchener

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

I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto Von Bismarck

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Woodrow Wilson

A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
German Proverb

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.
Vanna Bonta

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

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato

Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel

So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein

A just war is in the long run far better for a man’s soul than the most prosperous peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

The idea of all out nuclear war is unsettling.
Walter Goodman

Every government has an much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy De Maupassant

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?”
Eve Merriam

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

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

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