War Quotes And Sayings

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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
– Albert Einstein

“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
– Madalyn Murray O’Hair

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
– Douglas MacArthur

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
– George Orwell

“Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.”
– Norman Schwarzkopf

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu

“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”
– George Washington

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
– William Hazlitt

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
– George Orwell

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
– Winston Churchill

“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
– Sun Tzu

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We’ve blunted the Taliban’s momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.”
– Barack Obama

“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru

“It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
– George Washington

“The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.”
– Ted Nugent

“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”
– Winston Churchill

“I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”
– Will Rogers

“Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I’m not your president. You have that president today.”
– Mitt Romney

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”
– Ann Coulter

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
– Woody Allen

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
– Albert Einstein

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
– Aldous Huxley

“It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.”
– Jodie Foster

“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

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