Quotes About War

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

Bobby Tom told me he's not afraid of the Chargers' defense." "Bobby Tom'll tell you he's not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn't put too much stock in his opinion.

When we hear that "war" is made for "peace", or that "pain" is sought for "pleasure" or that "brutality" helps one "feel", in our minds, language ceases to describe reality. Words lose their direct relationship with actuality. And thus language and culture begin to exist entirely independently of nature.

Only the United States of America deemed ice cream "an essential item for troop morale." And so it alone continued producing, ordering ice cream freezers on submarines, ice cream freezers on tankers, ice cream freezers on cargo ships. Over the course of the war, the United States military became the largest ice cream manufacturer in history.