Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. Franklin D. Roosevelt on war
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. John Stuart Mill on war
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Henry David Thoreau on war
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway on war
If we don't end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells on war
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams on war
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas A. Edison on war
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. Sun Tzu on war
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte on war
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers on war
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt on war
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus on war
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Napoleon Hill on war
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Niccolo Machiavelli on war
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. George McGovern on war
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee on war
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell on war
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. George Santayana on war
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. Douglas MacArthur on war