War Quotes

"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes" "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." "Only the dead have seen the end of war " "May God have mercy upon my enemies because I won't" "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his" "Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men" "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." "Ain't nothing fair in this love and war " "Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down" "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves" "War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity " "There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs" "War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." "Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues"