Top war Quotes Collection - Page 3

Discover a curated collection of war quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 3 provides more war quotes.

Image of Aldous Huxley
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: War
Image of Larry Elder
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
- Larry Elder
Collection: War
Image of Ulysses S. Grant
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Collection: War
Image of Smedley Butler
We must take the profit out of war.
- Smedley Butler
Collection: War
Image of Georges Clemenceau
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
- Georges Clemenceau
Collection: War
Image of Jean Giraudoux
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
- Jean Giraudoux
Collection: War
Image of Petro Poroshenko
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.
- Petro Poroshenko
Collection: War
Image of William Halsey
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
- William Halsey
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the business of barbarians.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Muammar al-Gaddafi
If they wanted to end the violence and war between them and if they wanted Jews and Palestinians to live in peace, Jews and Palestinians, then they should consider this solution: one democratic state, free from weapons of mass destruction, and with the return of the Palestinian refugees.
- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Collection: War
Image of Thomas Jefferson
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: War
Image of Carl von Clausewitz
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
- Carl von Clausewitz
Collection: War
Image of Pat Buchanan
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
- Pat Buchanan
Collection: War
Image of Hong Chau
My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.
- Hong Chau
Collection: War
Image of Moustapha Akkad
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
- Moustapha Akkad
Collection: War
Image of Spencer Bachus
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.
- Spencer Bachus
Collection: War
Image of Will Rogers
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
- Will Rogers
Collection: War
Image of Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Winston Churchill
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: War
Image of Charles B. Rangel
Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.
- Charles B. Rangel
Collection: War
Image of William Tecumseh Sherman
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
Collection: War
Image of Victor Hugo
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: War
Image of Dwight D. Eisenhower
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Jim Mattis
We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.
- Jim Mattis
Collection: War
Image of Lemmy
I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
- Lemmy
Collection: War
Image of George Bernard Shaw
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: War
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: War
Image of Erik Larson
The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for the U.S. entering WWI. It was almost two years between the sinking and the war declaration, and President Wilson's request for war never mentions the Lusitania.
- Erik Larson
Collection: War
Image of Virginia Woolf
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: War
Image of Hideki Tojo
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.
- Hideki Tojo
Collection: War
Image of Gore Vidal
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: War
Image of Yoko Ono
In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
- Yoko Ono
Collection: War
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: War
Image of John Paul Jones
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
- John Paul Jones
Collection: War
Image of Noam Chomsky
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: War
Image of Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Collection: War
Image of Noah Feldman
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.
- Noah Feldman
Collection: War
Image of William Tecumseh Sherman
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
Collection: War
Image of Arthur L. Herman
The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.
- Arthur L. Herman
Collection: War
Image of Barbara Corcoran
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
- Barbara Corcoran
Collection: War
Image of Christopher Hitchens
There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
- Christopher Hitchens
Collection: War
Image of Barack Obama
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
- Barack Obama
Collection: War
Image of Isoroku Yamamoto
If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.
- Isoroku Yamamoto
Collection: War
Image of George S. Patton
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
- George S. Patton
Collection: War
Image of Jeannette Rankin
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
- Jeannette Rankin
Collection: War
Image of George B. McClellan
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
- George B. McClellan
Collection: War
Image of E. W. Howe
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
- E. W. Howe
Collection: War
Image of Mike Pence
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.
- Mike Pence
Collection: War