War quotations

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◆ If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

- George Washington99

◆ The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

- Douglas MacArthur99

◆ The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

- John F. Kennedy99

◆ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

- John Adams99

◆ I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

- William Tecumseh Sherman99

◆ Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

- Napoleon Bonaparte99

◆ To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

- George Washington99

◆ The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

- George S. Patton99

◆ 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 Einstein99

◆ There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

- Thomas A. Edison99

◆ There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

- Niccolo Machiavelli99

◆ The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower99

◆ What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

- Robert E. Lee99