War Quotes

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Music, Brain, Him

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.

Great, Society, Greatest

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

Made, Problem, Energy

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Made, Sense, Gun

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill

Fight, May, Whatever

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

Human, Few, Conflict

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

Truth, She, Lies

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill

Begin, Wars, Giants

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

End, Before, Put

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Same, Until

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton

Country, Die, Object

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

Left, Determine

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

Today, Problems, Military

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Enemy, Another

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

Matter, Nor, Crime

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

Peace, Good, Bad

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

Unless, Sound, Large

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Die, Rich, Poor

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Future, Forget, Past

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

Feeling, Nothing, Moral

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

Nature, God, Human

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Die, Reason

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

Politics, May, Philosophy

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