War and Peace

Aphorisms in This Category

61–74 (74)

tiny.ag/crui0h1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/hdyoy0ri · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Chris Daniels

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

tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1070 ratings) · submitted 1998

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

tiny.ag/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · submitted 1997

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997

I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

The Duke of Wellington, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · ★★☆☆ Fair (1221 ratings) · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · ★★☆☆ Fair (610 ratings) · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/mkv04ioy · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/pyjfe6sb · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

Ronald Reagan, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/aij5p9qp · ★★☆☆ Fair (245 ratings) · submitted 1997

Another victory like that and we are done for.

Pyrrhus, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/crjwer6v · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997

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