Quotes on War

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us, that we need not have war-that we can have peace.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.