Quotes About War

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.