Famous Quotations About War

Here are some famous quotations about war and warfare. We have quotes made by Dale Carnegie, John F. Kennedy, Neville Chamberlain, Sir Winston Churchill plus others.

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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two worldwide wars would indicate?

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I have already given two cousins to the war, and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

If we justify war it is because all peoples' always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

In war, which ever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.

The war was not expurgated for those who went through it.

They told me it would disrupt my life less if I got killed sooner.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.

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