951 private quotes tagged war

“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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“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.” — Winston Churchill

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“War is the ultimate tool of politics.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.” — Winston Churchill

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“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.” — Will Rogers

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

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

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“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Laws are silent in time of war.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.” — Will Rogers

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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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“The real war will never get in the books.” — Walt Whitman

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“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.” — James Madison

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“Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.” — Heraclitus

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“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.” — Kevin O'Leary

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“A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.” — Conrad Black

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“The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.” — Arthur Henderson

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“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.” — John Foster Dulles

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“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.” — Nancy Pelosi

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“War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.” — Jane Goodall

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“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.” — Tony Benn

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