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A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose. -Henry Kissinger
All wars are popular for the first 30 days. -Arthur Schlesinger
Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived. -Winston Churchill
Good things, when short, are twice as good. -Baltasar Gracian
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. -Alan Bennett
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. – Bible
In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. – German proverb
In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts. – Karl von Clausewitz
Let us not be deceived – we are today in the midst of a cold war. – Bernard Baruch
Morality is contraband in war. – Mahatma Gandhi
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. – George Orwell
There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin
They will conquer, but they will not convince. – Miguel de Unamuno
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me;
Shall be my brother. – William Shakespeare
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. – Lewis Carroll
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre
We only win at war because we fight another government.
If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime. – R. I. Fitzhenry
War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals. – Georges Clemenceau
War is mainly a catalog of blunders. – Winston Churchill
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. – Georges Clemenceau
Either war is obsolete, or men are. – Buckminster Fuller
War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. – Northrop Frye
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. – Anais Nin
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.- Barbara Tuchman
Know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. – Sun Tzu
What the hell difference does it make, left or right?
There were good men lost on both sides. – Brendan Behan
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. – Sun Tzu
Frankly I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether
and leave the whole field to private industry. – Joseph Heller
War is the national industry of Prussia. – Mirabeau
Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it. – Latin proverb
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion
to the effectiveness of the instruments of war. – Norman Cousins
I don’t know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me. –
Duke of Wellington
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we’re not free spenders- doesn’t know our like. – John Ciardi
In time of war the first casualty is truth. – Boake Carter
World War II was the last government program that really worked. – George Will
It’s one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle –
to get one’s head cut off. – Lewis Carroll
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. –
John Foster Dulles
War would end if the dead could return. – Stanley Baldwin
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come. – Carl Sandburg
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. People court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration. – Nels F. S. Ferre
The object of war is to survive it. – John Irving
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way. – William James

Men love war because it allows them to look serious;
because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. – John Fowles
War hath no fury like a non-combatant. – E. C. Montague
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. – Duke of Wellington
Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions. – Robert Ardrey
War is the trade of kings. – John Dryden
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. – Duke of Wellington
It is well that war is so terrible – we would grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. – Homer
Vice stirs up war; virtue fights. – Vauvenargues
In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. – Herodotus
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. – John F. Kennedy
The weak against the strong, Is always in the wrong. – Ivan Krylov
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others. – Horatio Nelson
War is like love, it always finds a way. – Bertolt Brecht
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water. – Mao Tse-Tung
It simply is not true that war never settles anything. – Felix Frankfurter
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Anonymous
There are no atheists in the foxholes. – William Thomas Cummings
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. –
William T. Sherman
There will be no veterans of World War III. – Walter Mondale
War is the science of destruction. – John S. C. Abbott
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. – Anonymous
Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her. – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. – Otto von Bismarck
War never leaves, where it found a nation. – Edmund Burke
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) – Julius Caesar
(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes,
but by blood and iron. – Otto von Bismarck
What millions died – that Caesar might be great! – Thomas Campbell
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. – John Dryden
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurl’d; Here once the embattl’d farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin
Hang yourself, brave Crillon. We fought at Arques, and you were not there. – Henry IV
It is not right to exult over slain men. – Homer
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. -Thomas Jefferson
Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything
and few know very much. – Frank Knox
0 G-d assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me. – Prince Leopold
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. – Abraham Lincoln
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. – Martin Luther
When after many battles past, Both tir’d with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt. – Francis Moore
G-d how the dead men Grin by the wall, Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball. – Alfred Noyes
O war! thou son of Hell! – William Shakespeare
A bad peace is even worse than war. – Tacitus
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. – Oscar Wilde
Pictures are from The Library of Congress . These images are from the Crimean War. This was the first war to be photographed. It was also a useless endeavor, the cause of which was forgotten before the dead were buried. It is the war that gave us the Charge of the Light Brigade, with it’s maxim, Ours is not to wonder why , ours is but to do or die.
Quotes were compiled by Famous Quotes and Authors. War is courtesy of crooked politicians.