951 private quotes tagged war

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” — Sun Tzu

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

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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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“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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“All war is deception.” — Sun Tzu

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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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“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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“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.” — Napoleon Hill

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

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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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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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“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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