951 private quotes tagged war

“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” — Sun Tzu

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

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“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” — Thomas Mann

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“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.” — Thomas Paine

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“We the unwilling.
Led by the unqualified.
To kill the unfortunate.
Die for the ungrateful.” — GI in Vietnam War

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“It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.” — Fred Woodworth

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

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“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

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

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“A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.” — Samuel Butler

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“Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move.” — Sun Tzu

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

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“War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” — Winston Churchill

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

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“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.” — Winston Churchill

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“A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Either war is obsolete, or men are.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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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

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“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

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“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

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“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.” — Winston Churchill

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

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“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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