War Quotes
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Anonymous
In war, truth is the first casualty.
- Aeschylus
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
- Albert Einstein
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire
Not war, man is mankind’s greatest enemy.
- Rosie Cash
Wars against nations are fought to change maps; wars against poverty are fought to map change.
- Muhammad Ali
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
- Colin Powell
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
- Seneca
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
- José Narosky
A war put off is not a war avoided.
- Charlton Heston
Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Here’s my strategy on the Cold War. We win, they lose.
- Ronald Reagan
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
War is not nice.
- Barbara Bush
Draft beer, not people.
- Bob Dylan
War is fear cloaked in courage.
- William
Either war is obsolete or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
- George Herbert
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Cicero
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
In war there is no prize for the runner up.
- General Omar Bradley
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
- Walter Goodman
War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
- Jonathan Swift
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
- Jean Paul Sartre
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
- Isaac Asimov
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
- Ralph Bunche
We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage.
- James Russell Lowell
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
- Francois Fenelon
The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.
- William Westmoreland
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
- Georges Clemenceau
I think war might be God’s way of teaching us geography.
- Paul Rodriguez
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
- Georges Clemenceau


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