War Quotes And Sayings

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“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”
– Donald Trump

“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.”
– Carly Simon

“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”
– Norman Schwarzkopf

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
– Otto von Bismarck

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”
– George Orwell

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
– Thomas Merton

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
– Ulysses S. Grant

“I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”
– Shel Silverstein

“Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.”
– Ron Paul

“Character… is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.”
– Charles Wilson

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”
– Douglas MacArthur

“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.”
– Albert Einstein

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
– Plato

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
– Baruch Spinoza

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
– Winston Churchill

“The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.”
– George Washington

“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.”
– George S. Patton

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
– Maria Montessori

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
– Albert Einstein

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