10,941 Quotes About War

We did an evil thing, father.""What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No.

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.