951 private quotes tagged war

“It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire

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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” — Sun Tzu

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“All war is deception.” — Sun Tzu

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“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.” — Martin Luther

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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.” — Winston Churchill

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“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.” — Will Rogers

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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other b-----d die for his.” — George S. Patton

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“War settles nothing.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.” — James Madison

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“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.” — Sophocles

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“Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.” — George Galloway

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“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.” — Jodie Foster

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“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.” — Benito Mussolini

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“God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.” — John Donne

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“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.” — Julius Caesar

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“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.” — George Orwell

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“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“In time of war the laws are silent.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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