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"438 War Quotes

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Annihilation Attitude Conquer Destruction
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The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Philosophy Protectionism War Of
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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

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

Boom Cause Destruction Directly
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Brings Earthquake Like Plague
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War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Conquered Conqueror Harmful Only
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Aggression Conquest Convinced Could
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Accomplish Act Constrain Enemy
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Avoid Desire Instruments Insult
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Except Means Never Peace
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Attack Battle Beaten Both
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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.

Art Art Of War Enemy Enough
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Fail Make Men Obedience
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Immediate Immediately Move Other
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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A riot is the language of the unheard.

Language Riot Unheard
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Centuries Each English French
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Diversity Goal Make Only
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Things change when you're fighting the best guys in the world.

Best Change Fighting Guys
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

America Any Cradle Domestic
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Amongst Battlefield Being Dead
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Against Away Courage Does
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Between Bottom Enmity Indifference
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We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

America Breaking Capable Children
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We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Armies Brought Hardware Intimidated
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Dead Except God Gods
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Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

Actually Call Country First
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So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
Every God Hates Loves
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Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

Battling Britain Fair Fair Share
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

First History Morrow Peace
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Nations Main Campaign Long
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
About Because Came Four
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People do not make wars; governments do.
Governments Make People Wars
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Am Calling Destroy Find
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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

Any Change Economic Forces Face
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

Because Better Dangerous Dispense
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

About Compete Every Every Man
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Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

Accused Analogy Animal Behaviour
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There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
Aggression Antiquity Bred Evolutionary
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Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

Admire Eisenhower Hero Most
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The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Always Burning Cold Cold War
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Crime How Justified Matter
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Any Brings Defeat Ever
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Authority Cause Conditions Just
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Caused Undefended Wars Wealth
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Die Dog Good Good Reason
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Cannot Ever Guarantee Impose
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Become Being Eligible Opponents
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What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Cruel Fill Hatred Hearts
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