Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham LincolnI know not with what weapons World War III will be fought but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert EinsteinGod created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark TwainWe kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.
Herman HesseLove is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. MenckenWe make war that we may live in peace.
AristotleAn eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma GandhiThere was never a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinThe goal of war is peace, of business leisure.
AristotleUntil the philosophy which hold one race superior, and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned - everywhere is war!
Bob MarleyWars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad AliUntil the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - Me say war.
Bob MarleyWar is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyBe at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin FranklinMorality is contraband in war.
Mahatma GandhiPeace above all things is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew JacksonWar is a defeat for humanity.
Pope John Paul IIIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun TzuAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham LincolnCan anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise PascalIf we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
Sun TzuWe give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
AristotleStrike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen KellerEven philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad, in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel KantThe ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
William ShatnerThe quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George OrwellA just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war
Francis BaconWars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin FranklinThe most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas JeffersonMarriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham LincolnSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George OrwellTo be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George WashingtonI hate war, as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality its futility its stupidity.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPolitics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. ForsterIt is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert EinsteinIt is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
BuddhaTo lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
ConfuciusThe real war will never get in the books.
Walt WhitmanIn modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest HemingwayThe eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
William BlakeWar kills men and men deplore the loss, but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb ColtonThoughtless dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting you would soon find out".
Winston ChurchillIn the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. NixonMan has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel New York wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.
Douglas AdamsA self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone WeilThe bad man is continually at war with and in opposition to himself.
AristotleI can make more generals but horses cost money.
Abraham LincolnI am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert EinsteinTo delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George SantayanaAmericans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. PattonLife is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
Marcus AureliusIt is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas PaineThat until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race - Dis a war.
Bob MarleyMake love and not war!
Bob MarleyAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas JeffersonTo lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma GandhiNo matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham LincolnIn great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be and one must be wrong.
Abraham LincolnWar is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas CarlyleMy first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George WashingtonThis is an important book the critic assumes because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia WoolfEach nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale CarnegieOnce the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. WellsIn war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. MenckenAll wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin FranklinWar is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo TolstoyAs long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
Oscar WildeYou cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert EinsteinThe British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard ShawOnce 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.
Ernest HemingwayWars are not won by evacuations.
Winston ChurchillYou can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will RogersSee that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
Michelle ObamaOur country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurNow let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits I'm not your president. You have that president today.
Mitt RomneyPeople ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly if I wanted to I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
J. K. RowlingWhat this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose BierceThere are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes all of us defending the United States of America.
Barack ObamaThere will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. EdisonWe should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald ReaganCould I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthurThe Cold War isn't thawing, it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping, it is as always plotting scheming working fighting.
Richard M. NixonLIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn, the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting, cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.
Sai BabaIt is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurDon't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile grin. If you can't grin keep out of the way till you can.
Winston ChurchillNo event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. NixonThat's what the Romney plan is all about how to get jobs created how to get this debt and deficit under control how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
Paul RyanWe've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaIt made me feel good yeah because we've been through so many wars together. And it feels good to kind of be able to enjoy ... the sweetness of it. And now to be able to move on for the organization to move on the city to move on and to focus on building this team (I) wish him all the best with his team down on South Beach.
Kobe BryantOf the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald ReaganThe slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose BiercePeace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas MertonWe shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow free and open across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman