War Quotes and Messages
War is a complex and devastating force that has had a profound impact on humanity throughout history. These powerful war quotes can help us to reflect on the costs of war and the importance of peace.
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
There is no security in war.
Gold is the nerve of the war.
A plausible war is preferable to a dishonourable peace.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
War is what happens when language fails.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
War is sweet to those who have never experienced it
War is a matter, not so much of arms as of expenditure.
War is therefore divine in itself since it is a law of the world.
When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.
It is the first step that, in all wars, reveals genius.
Money is the soul of war.
War is cruelty and you cannot refine it.
The war justifies the existence of the army. By destroying it.
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
Be in battle daunting, in courts humane.
All wars are made for the acquisition of assets.
We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
Those who give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always evil, never good.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.