War Quotes - Page 21

• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Money, Peace

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• 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

  Suicide, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1098, Best Books on

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• War determines not who is right but who is left.

  Sidney Greenberg

  Determine, Left

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• War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Fear, Men

  "On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity".

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• War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Loss, Dollars

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.5, The Forlorn Press

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• War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

  Frank Herbert

  Cells, Sea, Roots

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.281, Penguin

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• Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

  Robert H. Barrow

  Inspirational, Success, Military

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• War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Punishment, Punisher

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.135, Algora Publishing

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• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Desire, Fellow Man

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.581, Penguin

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• The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Peace, Military, Conflict

  "Adagia". Book by Desiderius Erasmus, 1500.

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Arbitration, Opinion, Settling

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Battle, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459

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• As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, Character, History

  Edward Gibbon (1781). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.8

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• War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

  Heinrich von Treitschke

  Men, Wish, Heroism

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• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

  George Orwell

  Civilization, Cities, Doubt

  1945 In the Observer, 8 Apr.

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• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  Records, World, Century

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• War is the father of all things.

  Heraclitus

  Peace, Father, All Things

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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• War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in civilization.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  Civilization, Law, Firsts

  "Germany and the next War" by Friedrich von Bernhardi, (Ch. I), 1911.

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, Philosophical, Wounds And Scars

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• By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

  Johan Galtung

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Peace

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• Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

  Wesley Clark

  Europe, Ideas, Political

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  I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Military, Fighting

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• I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Life, Memories, Struggle

  Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.272, Random House

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• Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Land, Liberty, Finals

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• They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

  Chesty Puller

  Military, Marine, Fighting

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