War Quotes

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978


Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~Ernest Hemingway


War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~George Herbert


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


You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. ~David Lloyd George


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


I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams


I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson

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

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.
Apocalypse Now, movie

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells


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


We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. ~James Russell Lowell




It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire, War



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

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

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

C.S. Lewis

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

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973


War would end if the dead could return. ~Stanley Baldwin


War! that mad game the world so loves to play. ~Jonathan Swift