War Quotes And Sayings

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“War remains the decisive human failure.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
– Havelock Ellis

“It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.”
– Lester B. Pearson

“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.”
– Jeane Kirkpatrick

“John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
– Isaac Asimov

“The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman

“War is a defeat for humanity.”
– Pope John Paul II

“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”
– Albert Pike

“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
– Barbara Tuchman

“The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.”
– Charles Evans Hughes

“A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.”
– Herbert V. Prochnow

“But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer.”
– Helen Thomas

“What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?”
– Benjamin Spock

“When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.”
– Prince Andrew

“We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.”
– Black Kettle

“It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn’t just my dad‘s story, it was my mom‘s story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.”
– Vanessa Kerry

“The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.”
– Omar N. Bradley

“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.”
– Anatole Broyard

“War would end if the dead could return.”
– Stanley Baldwin

“The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.”
– John Randolph

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
– James A. Baldwin

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
– H. L. Mencken

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
– George S. Patton

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“War is God‘s way of teaching Americans geography.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
– Albert Einstein

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