War Quotes - Page 24

• 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

  Fear, Enemy, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Accurst be he that first invented war.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Peace, Ubuntu, Firsts

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 4

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Peace, Battle, Half

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• War is the trade of kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, President, Definitions

  'King Arthur' (1691) act 2, sc. 2

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• For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, Army, Fighting

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.59, Adams Media

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• Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  Sun Tzu

  Encouragement, Arrogance, Inferiority

  "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Money, Impossible, Anti War

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• A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, Unjust, Gang

  Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.483

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• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  Veterans Day, Peace, Bombing

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• War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Political, Conqueror

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

  Pat Buchanan

  Peace, Empires, Ends

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• Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Believe, Opposites

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.91

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• Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

  Sun Tzu

  Bridges, Opponents, Golden

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• A rational army would run away.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Running, Army, Rational

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• All delays are dangerous in war.

  John Dryden

  Delay, Danger, Dangerous

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 1, sc. 1

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• In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, Military, Eye

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Soldier, Nations

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Peace

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• The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

  Arthur Koestler

  Veterans Day, Military, Men

  Janus (1978) prologue

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• Speed is the essence of war.

  Conor McGregor

  Essence, Mma, Speed

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• War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

  George Herbert

  Peace, Art Of War, Thieves

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.159

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• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Patriotism, Suffering

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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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

  Humanity, States, Plague

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.332

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• In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Peace, Powerful, Order

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 40, Article 1, pp. 1359-1360), 1485.

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• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Wisdom, Peace, Military

  Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 10 Nov. 1948, in Collected Writings (1967) vol. 1, p. 588

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