1,023 Quotes Regarding War


All war is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
John Wooden

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Sun Tzu

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Ron Paul

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron Paul

I was drafted during the Korean War.
Clint Eastwood

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Norman Schwarzkopf

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
Ron Paul

War is a contagion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt