War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

French Proverb Quotes

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Edmund Burke Quotes

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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Lester Bowles Pearson Quotes

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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.

Saint Thomas Aquinas Quotes

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Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

David G. Farragut Quotes

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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Richard M. Nixon Quotes

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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Albert Pike Quotes

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg Quotes

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Thucydides Quotes

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Jose Narosky Quotes

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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

Charles Sumner Quotes

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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Abraham Flexner Quotes

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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

Will Rogers Quotes

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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Gamel Abdel Nasser Quotes

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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

John A. Fisher Quotes

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

Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

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There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

Andrew B. Law Quotes

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When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

Arthur Ponsonby Quotes

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

T. S. Eliot Quotes

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Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

John Parker Quotes

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All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

Gerald R. Ford Quotes

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Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Quotes

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