Quotes About War

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.

ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.