1,023 Quotes Regarding War


War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Sarah Palin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Lester B. Pearson

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Herbert V. Prochnow

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles Evans Hughes

War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar N. Bradley

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin Spock