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War
Quotes/War Quotations
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"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants
and privates."
-F.E. Adcock, British classical scholar
The purpose of all war is peace.
- Saint Augustine, 354-430
"To have good
soldiers, a nation must always be at war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Laws are
inoperative in war"
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.): Pro Milone.
"War is the
continuation of policy(politics) by other means."
- Karl von Clausewitz
Or
"It is clear that war is not a mere act of policy but a true
political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means"
This is from a translated version of "On War" from 1976
"War is much too
serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."
- Georges Clemenceau
"I don't
know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during
war."
- Georges Clemenceau
"I hate
war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its
brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
-General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"War is delightful
to those who have had no experience of it. "
- Desiderius Erasmus,
Dutch humanist, ca. 1466–1536
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just
war"
- Desiderius Erasmus
"The God of War
hates those who hesitate."
- Euripides, 480-406 b.c.
Greek tragic dramatist
"The essence of war
is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility"
-British Sea Lord John Fisher
"It is war
that shapes peace, and armament that shapes war."
- Thomas Fuller
"He who stays on
the defensive does not make war, he endures it"
- Field
Marshal Colmar Baron von der Goltz, 1883
"If men
make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
- Ulysses S. Grant
"War is
the mother of everything."
-Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (535-475BC)
"In peace sons bury
fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons."
-Heroditus, greek historian
c. 484-425 B.C.
"In war, only the
simple succeeds."
-Field Marshal Paul Von
Hindenburg
"It is well that
war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it."
- General Robert E. Lee
"War is an art and
as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula"
- General George Patton Jr
Wars may be fought
with weapons, but they are won by men.
- General George Patton Jr
"Si vis pacem, para
bellum"
("If you want peace, prepare for war!")
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus (ca 390 AD),
Roman military strategist
From "Epitoma rei militaris" (a summary of military
matters)
"Cry 'Havoc' and
let slip the dogs of War."
- William Shakespeare
("Julius Caesar")
War is cruelty.
There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be
over.
-William Tecumseh Sherman
So in war, the way
is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
-Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
"The art of war is,
in the last result, the art of keeping one’s freedom of action"
- Xenophon, Greek
historian (c. 430-355 BC)
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