War Quotes

Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone, Next, Thinks

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, Fact, Secure

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu

Art, Enemy, Fighting

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, Time, Friend

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Men, Country

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, Hate, Strong

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

History, Price, Begins

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

Christmas, Home, Country

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Life, Death, Done

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Real, Victories

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Alone, Victory

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell

Peace, Strength, Freedom

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur

Peace, Others, Soldier

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

Peace, Means, Prepared

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

Peace, Live, May

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Hunting, France, Accordion

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

Win, While, Defeated

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Peace, Others, Themselves

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Lies, Spirit

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

Hate, Stupidity, Soldier

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Sports, Jealousy, Nothing

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

Good, Cause, Unto

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Power, After, Until

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