War and Peace

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

N. F. Simpson, 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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in War and Peace

Close the book and open your heart.

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell, 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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill, in War and Peace

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

Cicero, in War and Peace

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

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Charles Edward Montague, in War and Peace

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

Benito Mussolini, in War and Peace

Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick, in War and Peace

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Ovid, in War and Peace

Every soldier is an enemy.

Erno Paasilinna, in War and Peace

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George Patton, in War and Peace

Another victory like that and we are done for.

Pyrrhus, in War and Peace