1,023 Quotes Regarding War


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

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