War and Peace

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

 N. F. Simpson, in  War and Peace

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

 Hans A. Bethe, in  War and Peace

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.

 John Paul Jones, in  War and Peace

In war, there is no substitute for victory.

 Douglas MacArthur, in  War and Peace

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

 Steve Martin, in  War and Peace

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.

 Jean-Paul Sartre, in  War and Peace and  Wealth and Poverty

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

 John Stuart Mill, in  War and Peace

All warfare is based on deception.

 Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in  War and Peace

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

 Benito Mussolini, in  War and Peace

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

 Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in  War and Peace

Close the book and open your heart.

 Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in  War and Peace

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

 Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in  War and Peace

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  War and Peace

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  War and Peace

Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Law and Politics and  War and Peace

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

 Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in  Success and Failure and  War and Peace

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

 Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in  Life and Death and  War and Peace

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

 Unknown, in  War and Peace

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

 Unknown, in  War and Peace

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

 Albert Einstein, in  War and Peace