951 private quotes tagged war

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.” — 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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“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.” — 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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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” — 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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“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.” — Winston Churchill

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

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

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“Morality is contraband in war.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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