Famous war quotations

   War is fear cloaked in courage.  Nice Word by William Westmoreland

   It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.  Meaningful Quotation by George McGovern

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.  Good Quote by Fred Woodworth

   Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.  Wise Phrase by Francis Meehan

   The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.  Wise Phrase by Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945

   The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.  Famous Saying by Martin H. Fischer

   A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.  Nice Word by Herbert V. Prochnow

   The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.  Meaningful Quotation by Hermann Hagedorn, The Bomb That Fell on America

   Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.  Good Quote by John F. Kennedy, 1961

   No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.  Wise Phrase by Ambrose Bierce

   I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.  Wise Phrase by Brett Butler

   All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.  Famous Saying by François Fénelon

   Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.  Nice Word by Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Declaration of Rights

   It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.  Meaningful Quotation by André Gide, Journals, 13 September 1938

   All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?  Good Quote by Benjamin Franklin

   I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography.  Wise Phrase by Paul Rodriguez

   You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.  Wise Phrase by Jeanette Rankin

   The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.  Famous Saying by Albert Einstein

   War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?  Nice Word by Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'Eau

   War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.  Meaningful Quotation by John F. Kennedy

   The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.  Good Quote by Omar Bradley

   The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.  Wise Phrase by Albert Einstein

   I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.  Wise Phrase by Georges Clemenceau

   [John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.  Famous Saying by Isaac Asimov

   I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.  Nice Word by Ronald Reagan, 1985



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