Quotes About War

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.

If the bro army and sky army broke into war, I would die from the chose to fight for.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Peace is nothing but the confusion between two wars

It's possible to avoid a war. It's impossible to stop it.

Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime.

War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.