Quotes About War

A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to peer.

Every war decision must be forced to a clear-cut issue, and no thought of personal friendship or political unity can find any place in such a process. The soldiers who are ordered to their deaths have a right to a plan, as well as a cause.

Those two impostors,' Triumph and Disaster, never played their pranks more shamelessly than in the Great War. When men have done their duty and done their best, have shirked no labour and flinched from no decision that it was their task to take, there is no disgrace in eventual personal failure. They are but good comrades who fall in the earlier stages of an assault, which others, profiting by their efforts and experiences, ultimately carry to victory.

Para crear las condiciones desfavorables para sí misma, en las que Alemania produjo la guerra, eran, sin embargo, todavía necesarios muchos actos de absoluta imprudencia por parte de sus gobernantes.

A war postponed may be a war prevented. The combinations of States vary as years pass. The Ententes or Alliances of one decade may have lost their savour in the next. Time and peace solve many problems, and men's thoughts move on to new spheres.

The submarine is the only vessel of war which does not fight its like.

Pictures of heroism and triumph only tempt those who know nothing of the sufferings and terrors of war.

this had been a war, not of governments, but of peoples. The whole life-energy of the greatest nations had been poured out in wrath and slaughter.

Great Britain will certainly do her utmost to organise a coalition resistance to any act of aggression committed by any Power, and it is believed that the United States will co-operate with her, and even possibly take the lead of the world, on account of her numbers and strength, in the good work of preventing such tendencies to aggression before they break into open war.

War is a business of terrible pressures, and persons who take part in it must fail if they are not strong enough to withstand them.

the war in the West resolved itself into two periods of supreme battle, divided from each other by a three-years' siege.

No one expected a renewal of war in the lifetime of the generation that had known its horror and its squalors.

Such was the picture presented to the public, and such was the mood which ruled. It was not however entirely in accordance with the facts; and facts, especially in war, are stubborn things.

I must speak of Germany. Indescribable crimes have been committed by Germany under the Nazi rule. Justice must take its course, the guilty must be punished, but once that is over—and I trust it will soon be over—I fall back on the declaration of Edmund Burke, 'I cannot frame an indictment against an entire people.

Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.

Eso de fotogénico tiene poco, y requiere años. Todas las cámaras se han ido ya a otra guerra.

Die Straße stinkt nach Blut. Hier haben sie die Wahrheit massakriert.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

He hecho un curso de lectura veloz y he leído Guerra y paz en veinte minutos. Habla de Rusia.

La pregunta Escena II LINCOLN: La guerra no tiene nada que ver. Es mi sensibilidad hacia los sentimientos humanos.

Finally, we were led into the chamber of the High Priest, who bid us welcome. We bid him good tidings. He bid us sit down. We bid him speak. Soon there was a bidding war, and somehow, we outbid him and wound up with a walnut armoire, which we got at a steal.

When, lithe of limb, she danced the Pyrrhic, loud clapping followed; and the Paphlagonians asked, If these women fought by their side in battle? to which they answered, To be sure, it was the women who routed the great King, and drove him out of camp. So ended the night.

I have seen despicable rhetoricians beloved by the most famous orators, and persons who knew nothing of war live in familiarity with great generals. But

Thus strife and anger beget war, avarice stifles benevolence, envy produces hate. But friendship overcoming all these difficulties, finds out the virtuous, and unites them together. For