951 private quotes tagged war

“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” — George Orwell

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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” — Sun Tzu

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“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway

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

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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“War is the business of barbarians.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.” — Ambrose Bierce

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

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“I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.” — Nelson Mandela

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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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“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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“Morality is contraband in war.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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