951 private quotes tagged war

“Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — Isaac Asimov

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“There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” — Euripides

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“War is a profane thing.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover

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“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” — David Friedman

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“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” — Salvador Dali

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“War is a defeat for humanity.” — Pope John Paul II

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“The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.” — Robert E. Lee

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“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.” — Virginia Woolf

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“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.” — Chief Joseph

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“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.” — Thucydides

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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” — Francois Fenelon

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“Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.” — Benjamin Carson

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“Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.” — Robert E. Lee

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