War Quotes · Page 159

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

— Joachim du Bellay

“Even animals know how stupid the wars are, but men, know not yet!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

— Miyamoto Musashi

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

— Malcolm X

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

— William Safire

Learn to recognize and combat the enemies of potential.

— Myles Munroe

I was going to war for many years, I was brawling too much.

— Vicente Luque

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

— Tony Ferguson

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could…

— Larry Niven

Give up the fight, you have lost and you will lose this war, So you would better trust the way we are.…

— Chunk! NoCaptain Chunk

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

— Joseph Story

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less…

— Benjamin Franklin

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.

— Mona Eltahawy

War and sex are what I call the two abysmal - by that I mean deep - parts of the human condition.

— George Friedman

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

— Abraham Lincoln

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses…

— Oriana Fallaci

“As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that…

— Steve Wozniak

If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider…

— Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

“The device of the seven messages enables John to engage appropriately with seven different contexts in which his book would be read…

— Richard Bauckham

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme…

— George Lucas

We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen…

— Haile Selassie

For Americans, Poland has been a symbol of hope since the beginning of our nation. Polish heroes and American patriots fought side…

— Donald Trump

“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the…

— Mark Ellis

“Correct in his later assessment of war in general, Sherman was decidedly incorrect in this statement. The Nez Perce had both just…

— Lee H. Whittlesey

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

— Kent Conrad

“Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose.”

— Ian C. Esslemont

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

— Madeleine Albright

I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

— Greg Proops

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

— Henry M. Cist

“Even the softest and sweetest heart was made by design for extreme battle.”

— Bryant McGill

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

— Francis Schaeffer

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Flexibility is an essential pre-requisite to avoiding conflict.”

— Kambiz Mostofizadeh

“In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Just because I'm losing a battle, doesn't mean I'm losing the war.

— Melchor Lim

“I have heard that in war haste can be folly, but have never seen delay that was wise.”

— Sun Tzu

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

— Bernie Sanders

All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.

— Paul Virilio

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

— James Nachtwey

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

— James L. Petigru