War Quotes

If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.