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| My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. (George Washington) | [▲] | [▼] |
| War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. (Carl von Clausewitz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object. (Carl von Clausewitz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A bad peace is even worse than war. (Tacitus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. (James Ray) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. (Rabelais) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families. (Pythagoras) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend. (Albert Pike) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. (Bernard Mannes Baruch) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. (Douglas MacArthur) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. (Douglas MacArthur) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Wars are caused by undefended wealth. (Douglas MacArthur) | [▲] | [▼] |
| War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. (Le Gallienne) | [▲] | [▼] |
| War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. (Thomas Jefferson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. (Ernest Hemingway) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown. (Thomas Hardy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. (St. Thomas Aquinas) | [▲] | [▼] |
| War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. (Desiderius Erasmus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them. (Camillo di Cavour) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. (Guy de Maupassant) | [▲] | [▼] |
| War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. (Sarah Cleghorn) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. (Winston Churchill) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In war there is no prize for runner-up. (Omar Bradley) | [▲] | [▼] |