The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
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