Quotes About War

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

Would you end war? Create great Peace.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.

Germany will never break the peace of its own accord.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.