951 private quotes tagged war

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

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

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“Morality is contraband in war.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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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 myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.” — Albert Camus

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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 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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“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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“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.” — C. S. Lewis

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“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.” — Winston Churchill

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

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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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“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.” — Thomas Paine

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“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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