Quotes about War

“War is a contagion.”

“War is the trade of Kings.”

“Wars are made to make debt.”

“Morality is contraband in war.”

“Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!”

“War is like love, it always finds a way.”

“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”

“Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?”

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”

“In war there is no substitute for victory.”

“America is addicted to wars of distraction.”

“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”

“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”

“The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.”

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

“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”

“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”

“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”

“War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.”

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”

“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.”

“If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.”

“Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.”

“Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.”

“War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.”