War Quotes - Page 11

• Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Military, Bad Ass

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• I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Peace, Hate, Lying

  Sermon in New York on Armistice Day 1933, in Secret of Victorious Living (1934) p. 97

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• The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Heart, Army

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.233, Cambridge University Press

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• I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

  Unknown

  Mean, Enemy, Want

  "Hitler and Nazism". Book by Louis Leo Snyder, p. 66, 1961.

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• Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

  Pope Julius III

  Son, Understanding, World

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• O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me

  Aldo Leopold

  Enemy, Sides, Assisting

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• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, Fighting, Reality

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• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

  Albert J. Nock

  Money, States, Wells

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• All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Believe, Deception

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Peace, Mean, Liberty

  Democracy in America vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 22 (1840) (translation by Henry Reeve)

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• Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Peace

  "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". Stand-up act, edition.cnn.com. 1972.

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• The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  History, Facts, Murder

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Evil, Nuclear Missiles, Giants

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• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

  Aesop

  Peace, Tyrants, Political

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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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

  Peace, Hate, Fighting

  "The Quotable Dwight D. Eisenhower". Book edited by Elsie Gollagher, p. 219, 1967.

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• War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Peace, Aggravation, Solutions

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• No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

  Horatio Nelson

  Courage, Enemy, Captains

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, Revolution

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• A man can die but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Medieval War, Dies

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [253].

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• When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory.

  Robert W. Service

  Children, Grief, Sea

  Robert William Service, “The Song Of The Pacifist”

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• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.92

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• Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Order, Confusion

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• When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Winning, Men, May

  Finley Peter Dunne (2015). “Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War”, p.42, The Floating Press

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• To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

  John Milton

  Home, Men, Battle

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.504

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• After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Democracy, Littles, Libertarian

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