The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. Wells

Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe

Accursed be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Richard M. Nixon

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
John Stuart Mill

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
Richard M. Nixon

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
Henry L. Stimson

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.
Henry L. Stimson

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

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne

War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith