War Quotes
Quotes
Anyone who has ever looked
into the glazed eyes of a soldier
dying on the battlefield will think
hard before starting a war.
?Otto Von Bismarck
Peace with a club in hand is war.
?Portuguese Proverb
The sinews of war are five - men,
money, materials,
maintenance (food) and morale.
?Bernard Mannes Baruch
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes
the enemy without a blow.
?Chinese Proverb
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants. We know more about
war than we know about peace, more
about killing than we know about living.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom
and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
?General Omar N. Bradley
If you are going to try to go to war,
or to prepare for war, in a capitalist
country, you have got to let business
make money out of the
process or business won't work.
?Henry Lewis Stimson
War is like love, it always finds a way.
?Bertolt Brecht
War alone brings up to their highest tension
all human energies and imposes the stamp
of nobility upon the peoples
who have the courage to make it.
?Benito Mussolini
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
?Boake Carter
Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
?Henry David Thoreau
All diplomacy is a continuation
of war by other means.
?Chou En-Lai
The more you sweat in peace,
the less you bleed in war.
?Hyman Rickover
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
The art of war is simple enough. Find out
where your enemy is. Get at him as soon
as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and
as often as you can, and keep moving on.
?Ulysses S. Grant
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should
always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
?Sir Winston Churchill
It is a fatal error to enter any
war without the will to win it.
?Douglas MacArthur
All great civilisations, in their early stages,
are based on success in war.
?Kenneth Clark
You can no more win a war than
you can win an earthquake.
?Jeannette Rankin
War - An act of violence whose
object is to constrain the enemy,
to accomplish our will.
?Karl Von Clausewitz
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
?William T. Sherman
War is too serious a matter
to leave to soldiers.
?Georges Clemenceau
