Famous Quotes

These are some famous War quotes and sayings for all War mongers as well as Anti War activists.

The purpose of all wars…is peace.
~Saint Augustine

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
~Bertrand Russell

Either war is obsolete or men are.
~R. Buckminster Fuller

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
~Omar Bradley

War is fear cloaked in courage.
~Gen William C. Westmoreland

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
~Mao Tse-Tung

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
~J.R.R. Tolkien

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
~Jeannette Rankin

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.
~ Sun Tzu

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
~Thomas Mann

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?””
~Eve Merriam

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
~Homer

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
~Winston Churchill

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
~Georges Clemenceau

We make war that we may live in peace.
~Aristotle

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

Fighting men are the city’s fortress.
~Alcaeus

A mind at peace does not engender wars.
~Sophocles

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
~ Ronald Reagan

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
~ Tzu Sun

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~Albert Einstein

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
~ Sun Tzu

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
~George Orwell

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
~Jose Narosky

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
~Carl Sandburg

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
~Omar Bradley

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
~Albert Einstein

You know, I’m pro-troops, but I’m not pro-war.
~ Toby Keith

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
~Thomas Hardy

But then again,
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin

War is not nice.
~Barbara Bush

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
~Mahatma Gandhi

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~Albert Einstein

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
~Chinese Proverbs

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
~Agatha Christie

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful”
~C.S. Lewis

We have heard of not a single, government surveillance of a pro-war group. And I doubt we will ever hear of a single surveillance of a pro-war group.
~ Gerald Weber

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