War Quotes

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Adventure, Disease, Typhus

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

Brother, Crime, Excuse

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

Give, Nobody, Sometime

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

Peace, Means, Except

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth

Hurt, Human, Seems

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

May, Victory, Gain

War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Failure, Human, Remains

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

Peace, Problems, Escape

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

Children, Small, Problem

War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

Men, Training, Learn

Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel

Blood, Sweat, Saves

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

Peace, Makes, Thieves

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson

Truth, Casualty

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike

Victory, Result, Series

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

Anybody, Scenes, Cured

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern

History, Political, Soul

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland

Men, Enemy, Difficult

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

Nothing, Achieve, Achieved

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Sarah Palin

Win, Law, Standing

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin

Win, Earthquake

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Lester B. Pearson

Easy, Often, Rulers

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Peace, Wants, Conflict

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman

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