Quotes in War

Either war is obsolete or men are.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

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.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

People don't start wars, governments do.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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.