War Quotes

"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."

"War leaves scars that no peace treaty can fully heal."

"War is failure of all other arts and wisdom."

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

"If I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox."

"War is the greatest teacher of statecraft and strategy."

"Never leave an enemy at your back."

"I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but also never to finish a just one imperfectly."

"I have no use for a general who shows me a map with no blood on it."

"The soldier who fights for God fights with certainty."

"War is a game played by soldiers and lost by civilians."

"Those who claim to want peace most often prepare for war with the greatest zeal."

"The greatest lesson I learned in war is that most of it could have been avoided through better diplomacy."

"In bloodshed and struggle, we forge the metal of a nation."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

"All is fair in love and war."

"The art of war is simple: divide your enemies and unite your people."

"The cost of war is measured not in gold, but in the faces of the grieving."

"A just war is a contradiction; any war leaves scars that justice cannot fully heal."

"Hunting is a war, and war is like hunting."

"I do not make war for glory; I make war because there is no other way."

"The soldier who fights only for gold has already lost the war of the spirit."

"The greatest victory is when your enemy becomes your subject in peace."

"To understand your enemy is to have already half-defeated him."

"The greatest strategy is to make your enemy believe you are stronger than you are."

"To conquer the body is simple; to conquer the will is true victory."

"War cannot be avoided unless at the cost of slavery."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"All warfare is based on deception."

"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."