War Quotes · Page 119

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

— Albert Einstein

“There was never a bad peace or a good war.”

— Ben Franklin

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

— Thomas Jefferson

War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

— Georges Clemenceau

“You can’t fight a war solely because it’s in your nature to fight.”

— E.R. Arroyo

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

— Tom DeLonge

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends...…

— Harry Patch

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by…

— John Cassian

; Sometimes you just have to bite your tongue, and find an alternative outlet for your anger, & pain. Pick your battles,…

— Brittany Marcum

“You don’t hijack one's husband and still fight a wit battle with one even when caught red- handed.”

— S. A. David

Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we?

— Dennis Miller

Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was…

— William J. Clinton

“I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;--then at…

— Erich Maria Remarque

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free…

— Armstrong Williams

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold.…

— Anonymous

“This house, the cars, the money. It’s all an illusion. It’s like parading a victory when you missed the war.” She took…

— Anonymous

“Atrocities were expected in both European and Native conflicts. And yet, the English had to admit that compared to what was typical…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am…

— Flannery O'Connor

“first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle;  if you will not begin with stratagem but…

— Sun Tzu

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

— Nostradamus

“And when all the wars are done,’ I said, ‘a butterfly will still be beautiful.”

— Ruskin Bond

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.

— Ronald A. Heifetz

Dress up inna black and go funeral, tell a dutty gyal say the war brutal.

— Lady Saw

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

— Suzanne La Follette

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

— John McPhee

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

— Anonymous

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

— Dick Cheney

“After ten years of war, I no longer believe in moments of peace.”

— Pierce Brown

“Planets and humans are alike. They collide during conflicts, but shine during peace.”

— Vinita Kinra

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

— Kayleigh McEnany

The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

— Hiromu Arakawa

“One man's warfare is another man's welfare.”

— Timothy Pina

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

— Arthur Wellesley

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

— Yuri Kochiyama

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo