951 private quotes tagged war

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

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

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“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“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

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“All war is deception.” — Sun Tzu

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“It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire

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“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.” — Will Rogers

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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.” — Albert Einstein

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“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

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“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” — John F. Kennedy

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“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.” — Sophocles

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“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.” — James Madison

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“Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.” — George Galloway

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“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

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“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.” — Benito Mussolini

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“God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.” — John Donne

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“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.” — Julius Caesar

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“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.” — George Orwell

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“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“In time of war the laws are silent.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“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

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