War Quotes

The Emancipation Proclamation shattered in one blow the slave system, undermining the foundations of the economy of the rebellious South; and guaranteed that no slave-holding class, if permitted to exist in defeat, could prepare a new and deadlier war after resuscitation.

Communism is based on ethical relativism and accepts no stable moral absolutes. Right and wrong are relative to the most expedient methods for dealing with class war.

The beauty of non-violence is that it is possible to fight war without violence, and it is possible to struggle for that which is right with love in one's heart.

The chain reaction of evil-Hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile grin. If you can't grin keep out of the way till you can.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general the more he contributes in maneuver the less he demands in slaughter.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes... This is a War of the Unknown Warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty; and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.

In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.