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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon on war

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on war

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley on war

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell on war

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover on war

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on war

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides on war

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali on war

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger on war

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov on war

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland on war

War is a defeat for humanity.
Pope John Paul II on war

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on war

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley on war

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

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant on war

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth on war

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca on war

War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith on war

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann on war