1,023 Quotes Regarding War


We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
Doc Hastings

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
John Milton

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
E. W. Howe

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
Judy Biggert

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Hannah Arendt

Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe

War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Thomas Hardy

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
Duke of Wellington

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
David Cameron

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Miguel de Cervantes

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel de Cervantes

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
Ernie Pyle

War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
John Podhoretz