War Quotes

"War, though sometimes necessary, is never glorious."

"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine."

"Every attempt to make war easy and comfortable is a mistake."

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."

"Sentiment has no place in war."

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."

"We are not fighting for independence or conquest, but for the preservation of what is ours."

"The true cost of war is measured in human lives, not in gold."

"The British fleet to the northwest of Cape Finisterre."

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is and get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on."

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge."

"In war, as in life, the unexpected often determines the outcome more than careful planning."

"The art of war is simple enough; find out where your enemy is, get at him as soon as you can, and strike him as hard as you can."

"The amount of traffic on an enemy's supply line is in direct proportion to the traffic on one's own."

"The art of war is the art of concentration."

"Strategy without tactics is the slow route to defeat; tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."

"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses."

"All attempts to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."

"War is the failure of diplomacy."

"I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a just one except by conquest."

"God is always on the side of the big battalions."

"To kill a man is murder. To kill millions is a statistic."

"War is a science which is required to cover with all the shame of our diplomacy."

"War is the failure of all other methods of resolution."

"War leaves scars that generations cannot heal."

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is and get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on."

"The soldier who fears nothing and loves greatly is invincible."

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."