Quotes About War

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.