10,941 Quotes About War

We're trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the missions, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes that we're the one who needs to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

There are times in war when the sharpest emotion is not fear, but loneliness and littleness.

Frantic in my fury I had no time for decisions; I only remembered that death in battle is glorious.

What does it mean when language becomes the only 'home' to inhabit when all else is lost for displaced and exiled writers (and people)?

We have hearts valiant in war, we have spirit, and a manhood which has proved itself by deed.

His heart beat high for war and he blazed with an implacable fire which needed no kindling.

To you, sedition, violence and fighting are the breath of life. What if you are a great soldier - who made you so but God?

War is men's business; and this war is the business of every man in Ilium, myself above all.

Take my advice then, and set aside all thoughts of avenging your son. Many a finer and stronger man than he has been killed before now and will be killed hereafter. We can hardly expect to keep our eyes on the pedigree of every man on Earth.