Quotes on War

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, _x000D_ And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy but do not want to engage in serious Bible study; they value moral probity, especially of the public sort, but do not engage in war against inner corruptions; they fret over the quality of the preacher's sermon but do not worry much over the quality of their own prayer life. Such Christians are content with mediocrity.