The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
- Paul Rodriguez
The only way to win a war is to prevent it.
- Secretary of State George C. Marshall
Men create war to compete with women, who create life.
- Sharon Doubiago
Nuclear war would really set back cable.
- Ted Turner
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought with,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
War is not nice.
- Barbara Bush
Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made
institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society.
What man has made, man can change.
- Frederick Moore Vinson (1890-1953)
I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do
is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American
dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence.
Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an
early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your
boss in the back.
- Hawkeye from *M*A*S*H* "O.R.," 1974
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
- Gen. William Westmoreland
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too
fond of it.
- Robert E. Lee
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the
military.
- Georges Clemenceau
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to
mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H.L. Mencken
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.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,
the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all
in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity
hanging on a cross of iron.
- President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 speech
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is.
Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can
and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the
result of a hundred battles.
- Sun Tzu Chinese military strategist
He who did well in war just earns the right to begin doing well
in peace.
- Robert Browning (1812-1889)
All delays are dangerous in war.
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
All things that are made for our general uses are at war, Even
we among ourselves.
- John Fletcher (1579-1625)
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is
poor reading.
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation
for war.
- Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.)
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty
scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills
that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's
two-hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk,
and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be
paid by another drawn with the sword, as was
said
three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, “The
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Ez fer war, I call it murder, —
There you hev it plain an' flat;
I don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment fer that.
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
- Sophocles (c. 496 B.C.-406 B.C.)
Hobbes clearly proves that every creature lives in a state of war
by nature.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the
world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672.
- Sir William Temple (1628-1699)
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its
fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease
to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of
preserving peace.
- George Washington (1732-1799)
Human war has been the most successful of
our cultural traditions.
- Robert Ardrey
War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
- Gary Wills
You can build a throne out of bayonets, but
you can't sit on it for very long.
- Boris Yeltsin
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