War Quotes - Page 19

• In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Peace, Patriotism

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, Political, Wicked

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Killing Someone, Patriotism

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

  George Orwell

  Peace, Ubuntu, Self

  George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

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• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

  Karl Kraus

  Fighting, Winning, Enemy

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.153, Syracuse University Press

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• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Time, Patriotic, Winning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

  Charles Sumner

  Kings, Queens, Children

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Peace

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• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sunset, Victory And Defeat, Violent Man

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Evil, Able, Path

  NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1947). “THE PRINCE”

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• My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Slavery, Unions

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

  Saadi

  Mind, Enemy, Ease

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• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Motivational, Patience

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friendship, Family And Friends, Separation

  Robert E. Lee (2007). “Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Peace, Military, Knows

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, World Destruction, Hype

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, Tyrants, Want

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 25

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• Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Love, Peace, Mass Destruction

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• The only defensible war is a war of defense.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, Defense, Antiwar

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• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Blood, Battle

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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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

  Funny, Peace, Children

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• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Peace, Individual, Grants

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• People do not make wars; governments do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Government, People

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Money, Men

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.331, e-artnow

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• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Peace, Criminals, Crime

  "The Pathway of Peace". Speech to the Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, Ontario. "The Pathway of Peace : Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as as secretary of state (1921-1925)" by Charles Evans Hughes, September 04, 1923.

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