The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. —Walter Goodman More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. —W. L. George More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. —Thomas Mann More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. —Theodore Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Either war is obsolete or men are. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace. —Robert E. Lee More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? —Omar Bradley More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. —Mao Tse-Tung More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. —John Stuart Mill More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. —Jeannette Rankin More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email