951 private quotes tagged war

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

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

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

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

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“Morality is contraband in war.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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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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“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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“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.” — Will Rogers

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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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“War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.” — George Washington

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

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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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“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.” — Albert Camus

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“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” — George Washington

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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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“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.” — George Orwell

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“War is a contagion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” — Sun Tzu

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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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“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.” — Ronald Reagan

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

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