War Quotes

Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.

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"War brings ruin; peace brings prosperity. Choose wisely."
Constantine I
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"War leaves scars that generations must heal."
Constantine I
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"War is the last resort of fools."
Septimius Severus
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"War leaves scars upon the earth that centuries cannot fully heal."
Pliny the Elder
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"Desperation is the weapon of those who have lost all other arguments."
Cato the Younger
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"In war, the tongue can be as dangerous as the blade."
Cato the Elder
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"To understand the enemy is the surest path to victory."
Cato the Elder
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"The most dangerous enemy is the one you refuse to acknowledge."
Diocletian
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"To understand war, one must understand peace."
Diocletian
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"War teaches us the value of peace."
Hadrian
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"In war, hesitation is the death of empires."
Septimius Severus
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"The borders of an empire are drawn in blood and maintained by steel."
Septimius Severus
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"In war, the strongest will always prevail over the righteous."
Septimius Severus
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"In times of peace, the seeds of war are sown."
Septimius Severus
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"The greatest battles are won by those who understand the hearts of their enemies."
Constantine I
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"War is the failure of civilization; peace its highest achievement."
Cato the Elder
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"To make war is easy; to make peace is the true test of courage."
Cato the Younger
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"War is the failure of wisdom; peace is its triumph."
Commodus
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"War is the science of destruction."
Cato the Elder
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"The price of peace is eternal vigilance, but the cost of eternal war is the soul itself."
Diocletian
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"War teaches what peace obscures: the value of unity."
Septimius Severus
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"War reveals virtue and vice in equal measure."
Septimius Severus
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"War teaches the value of what peace provides."
Constantine I
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"War begun is half lost, for violence begets only violence."
Cato the Younger
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"War proves that man has not yet learned to be civilized."
Cato the Younger
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"Wars are won by armies, but peace is built by philosophers and poets."
Antoninus Pius
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"War is justified only when fought for noble purposes."
Cato the Elder
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"The greatest victory is when your enemy begs for death before you grant it."
Commodus
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"The greatest battle is the one the world never sees."
Commodus
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"I have conquered lands but never the hearts of my enemies"
Trajan