War Quotes

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

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"War teaches peace its true value through immeasurable cost."
Titus
"A kingdom divided against itself cannot endure."
Nero
"War reveals the worst in us; peace reveals the best."
Nero
"The true cost of war is measured in the faces of widows and orphans."
Vespasian
"A just war is a rare thing; most wars are simply the ambitions of men made manifest."
Vespasian
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"To understand your enemy is to conquer him without drawing a blade."
Trajan
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"The true cost of war is measured not in gold, but in the souls it transforms."
Trajan
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"Every enemy eliminated is a potential rebellion prevented."
Domitian
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"The greatest military victory is the one your enemies never see coming."
Domitian
"I have learned that war is sometimes the path to peace."
Tiberius
"War teaches what peace never could."
Caligula
"War is the father of all things, and peace is the mother of stagnation."
Nero
"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Augustus
"War makes rattling good history; but Peace is better than War."
Augustus
"The greatest wars are fought not with swords, but with wills."
Tiberius
"War reveals the true nature of men."
Caligula
"War is the truest test of what a civilization actually values."
Caligula
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war."
Mark Antony
"War is hell."
Mark Antony
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"War is the failure of wisdom to take root."
Claudius
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"War is the failure of wisdom and diplomacy."
Marcus Brutus
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"Victory is determined not by the weapons one bears, but by the determination of the spirit."
Pompey
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Pompey
"Wars are won not on the battlefield but in the minds of men beforehand."
Caligula
"Wars are not won by weapons alone, but by the conviction of those who wield them."
Augustus
"In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity."
Tiberius
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"The art of war is the art of deception."
Hannibal
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"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
Hannibal
"War teaches bitter lessons that peace can never fully erase."
Mark Antony
"War is the failure of all other human endeavors."
Mark Antony