War Quotes
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Baruch, Bernard Mannes
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. -- Bernard Mannes Baruch
Bradley, Omar
In war there is no prize for runner-up. -- Omar N. Bradley
Churchill, Winston
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. -- Sir Winston Churchill
Cleghorn, Sarah
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. -- Sarah Cleghorn
de Maupassant, Guy
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. -- Guy de Maupassant
di Cavour, Camillo
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
Erasmus, Desiderius
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Hardy, Thomas
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.
Hemingway, Ernest
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Jefferson, Thomas
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Le Gallienne
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. -- Le Gallienne
MacArthur, Douglas
Wars are caused by undefended wealth. -- Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur, Douglas
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. -- Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur, Douglas
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. -- Douglas MacArthur
O'Meara, Barry
March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us.
Pike, Albert
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend. -- Albert Pike
Pythagoras
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families. -- Pythagoras
Rabelais
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Ray, James
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. -- James Ray
Tacitus
A bad peace is even worse than war. -- Tacitus
von Clausewitz, Carl
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object. -- Carl von Clausewitz
von Clausewitz, Carl
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Washington, George
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.