War Quotes

  • You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
    ~ Jeannette Pickering Rankin
  • War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
    ~ George Herbert
  • Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
    ~ Ernest Hemingway
  • Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.
    ~ Author Unknown
  • What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.
    ~ Author Unknown
  • War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
    ~ John F. Kennedy
  • The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
    ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
    ~ Colman McCarthy
  • The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.
    ~ Arthur Koestler
  • The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
    ~ Omar N. Bradley
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