Famous Quotes About war

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

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