951 private quotes tagged war

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“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Morality is contraband in war.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”— Howard Zinn
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“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”— Leo Tolstoy
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“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”— H. G. Wells
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”— Bertrand Russell
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“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”— Aldous Huxley
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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”— Thomas A. Edison
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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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“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”— Will Rogers
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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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“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”— Bertrand Russell
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“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”— Winston Churchill
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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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“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”— John F. Kennedy
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“We make war that we may live in peace.”— Aristotle
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“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“If we don't end war, war will end us.”— H. G. Wells