“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.”
- W. L. George
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
- Oscar Wilde
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”
- Jose Narosky
“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”
- John Milton
“O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.”
- Alexander Pope
“War remains the decisive human failure.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith
“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“War doesn’t make boys men, it makes men dead.”
- Ken Gillespie
“Politics is the womb in which war develops.”
- Karl Von Clausewitz
“All warfare is based on deception.”
- Sun Tzu
“One more vicotory and we are undone.”
- Pyrrhus of Epirus
“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.”
- Napolean Bonaparte
“Never do an enemy a small injury.”
- Niccoló Macchiavelli
“Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
- Aristotle
“The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them…”
- Sun Tzu
“Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.”
- Ulysses S. Grant
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.”
- George Washington
“The world is adangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
- Albert Einstein
“Wars are poor chisels for carving our peaceful tomorrows.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
“They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war — as though the absence of war was the same as peace.”
- Dorothy Thompson
“Either war is obsolete or men are.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”
- Croesus
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
“War is the business of barbarians.”
- Napolean Bonaparte
“All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.”
- Admiral Sir John Fisher
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“During war, the laws are silent.”
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
“It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the
aftermath of war.”
- Herbert Hoover
“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are
for war.”
- John Andrew Holmes
“War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with
dreams and nightmares.”
- John Cory
“War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute
damnation. It’s peace that’s wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.”
- Lois McMaster Bujold
“Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier
“I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war… suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.”
- Philip Caputo
“Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier
“War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it causes is
beyond telling or meaning; but war was our condition and our history, the place we had to live in.”
- Martha Gelhorn
“Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.”
- Anne Elizabeth O’Hare McCormick
“The statesman who yields to war fever… is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”
- Robert Lynd
“What a cruel thing is war… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love
for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.”
- General Robert E. Lee
“Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
“There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the
grave.”
- John James Ingalls
“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truely
vanquished.”
- Johan Christoph Stiller
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“All wars are fought for money.”
- Socrates
“I hope… that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible
creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences
without cutting throats…”
- Benjamin Franklin
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may know peace.”
- Thomas Paine
“Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.”
- E. M. Forster
“Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl’d In
the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world, There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe And the kindly earth shall
slumber, lapt in universal law.”
- Alfred Tennyson
