Quotes About War

Older men declare war. But its the youth who must fight and die!

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

For the Enemy is permanent. He is not in the emergency situation but in the normal state of affairs. He threatens in peace as much as in war (and perhaps more than in war); he is thus being built into the system as a cohesive power.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Boys fight the wars. We'd have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

I have no country. I don't want one. The root of all evil, the cause of every war—god and country.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Misguided missile." A happy simile; he must remember it. Perhaps a word to the War Office: the next time a cold war hotted up it might be an idea to launch her into the trouble spot, which should give the troublemakers enough troubles of their own to prevent them from troubling other people.

Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples.

The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their foreheads.

Information secured after the end of hostilities supports our surmise that some Abwehr officials willfully shut their eyes to suspicions about their agents. They thought it better for selfish reasons to have corrupt or disloyal agents than to have no agents at all.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

Do you know Camille Desmoulins?" he asked. "Have you seen him? He's one of these law-school boys. Never used anything more dangerous than a paper knife." He shook his head wonderingly. "Where do they come from, these people? They're virgins. They've never been to war. They've never been on the hunting field. They've never killed an animal, let alone a man. But they're such enthusiasts for murder.