Warfare Quotes
326 Warfare quotes by 252 unique authors
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In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have…
— John J. Pershing
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We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but…
— Mao Zedong
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The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
— Lucretius
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Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by…
— Franz Kafka
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
— Walter Scott
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.
— Walter Scott
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If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a…
— Ernest K. Gann
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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
— James Madison
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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon…
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
— Sun Tzu
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The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but…
— John Keegan
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You…
— Unknown Author
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Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!
— Perry M Smith
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Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.
— Robert Southwell
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Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Warfare Quotes
252 authors contributed a total of 326 Warfare Quotes, led by these top contributors: