951 private quotes tagged war

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

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“If we don't end war, war will end us.” — H. G. Wells

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“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” — Plato

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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.” — Harry S. Truman

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“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.” — Bertrand Russell

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“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

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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.” — Winston Churchill

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“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.” — Samuel Butler

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“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.” — George Orwell

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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.” — George Orwell

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“War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.” — James Madison

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“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.” — Winston Churchill

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“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.” — Carl Sandburg

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