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War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson

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When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

 

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb

When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill

I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill

It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying
as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide,
you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension...
would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill

All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu

The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill

We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy

When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Creator has not thought proper
to mark those in the forehead
who are of stuff to make good generals.
We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold,
and then let them learn the trade
at the expense of great losses.
- Thomas Jefferson

Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill

Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering

What is human warfare but just this;
an effort to make the laws of God and
nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau

What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain

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?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill

The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu

Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

With Malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and
for a time they seem invincible,
but in the end, they always fall ... think of it, always.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill

Morality is contraband in war.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi


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