951 private quotes tagged war

“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.” — Carl Sandburg

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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.” — Samuel Butler

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“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.” — Winston Churchill

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“Morality is contraband in war.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.” — George Orwell

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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“If we don't end war, war will end us.” — H. G. Wells

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“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” — Albert Einstein

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“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.” — James Madison

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“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.” — Harry S. Truman

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“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.” — Albert Camus

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“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!” — Helen Keller

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“War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.” — George Washington

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“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.” — George Orwell

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“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” — John F. Kennedy

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“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” — George Washington

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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“In war there is no prize for runner-up.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“War is a contagion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” — Sun Tzu

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“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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