War Quotes - Page 7

• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  H. G. Wells

  Peace, Remembrance, Call Of Duty

  H. G. Wells (2016). “You Can't Be Too Careful”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

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• If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, World, Serious

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• The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Successful, Loss

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.10, Algora Publishing

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• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

  Thomas Mann

  Peace, Military, Hippie

  "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1951.

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• I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

  William Westmoreland

  Believe, Men, Enemy

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Quoted in New Yorker, 8 Jan. 1966

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• All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Mean, Violence

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• Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.

  Cesare Pavese

  One Day, Doe, Ends

  "The House on the Hill". Book by Cesare Pavese. Ending words, 1949.

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• Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, Men, Enemy

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Peace, Community, Society

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.365, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• How is it possible to have a civil war?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Opposites, Civilization, Ifs

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.77, Penguin

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Brutality, Spirit

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• The first casualty when war comes is truth.

  Hiram Johnson

  Peace, Firsts, Casualties

  1917 Speech, US Senate.

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• Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

  Adela of Normandy

  Army, Weapons, Salvation

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• It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Men, Conflict

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.111

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• Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

  Robert Runcie

  Loyalty, Spring, Remembrance

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• Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Yield, Laurels, Total War

  'De Officiis' bk. 1, ch. 77

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• Laws are inoperative in war

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Military, Law, Lawyer

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, Humanity, Unfair

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Greatest Victory, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Fighting, Victory

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

  Jean Plaidy

  People, Suffering, Consequence

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• Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Ends, Pacifism

  "Einstein on Peace".

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• Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, Party, Divine Right

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