War Quotes

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it is said that this one is a faithful judge.

Khalil Gibran

You war against heaven.

Ye will get war bodes ere Beltan.

When war begins the devil makes hell bigger.

When there is a war between fire and water, fire loses.

Weapons bodes peace.

War with all the world, and peace with England.

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

War is pleasant to those who have not tried it.

War is a disaster for winner and loser alike.

War gives no opportunity for repeating a mistake.

War begun, hell unchained.

War appears pleasant to those who have never experienced it.

To win a war quickly takes long preparation.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.