War Quotes

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Herbert V. Prochnow

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

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

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

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

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

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

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

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

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus

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

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

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee