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Positive Quotes about War

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When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur

 

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb

Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy

We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln

I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill

What is human warfare but just this;
an effort to make the laws of God and
nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee

The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu

We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill

What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain

The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill

When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill

I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying
as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide,
you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension...
would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill

When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

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

It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart

With Malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln

Anyone who thinks, must think of
the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill

The Creator has not thought proper
to mark those in the forehead
who are of stuff to make good generals.
We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold,
and then let them learn the trade
at the expense of great losses.
- Thomas Jefferson

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy

Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

We must concentrate not merely on
the negative expulsion of war
but the positive affirmation of peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.


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