War Quotes

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

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"War leaves scars that peace cannot fully heal, so let peace be our greatest ambition."
Elbert Gary
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"Wars are fought first in the mind before a single shot is fired."
Charles Flint
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"War is the failure of diplomacy and the death of progress."
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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"War teaches hard lessons that peace often forgets."
John C. Fremont
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"War is the failure of diplomacy and wisdom."
John C. Fremont
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"War teaches us that some solutions extract costs far greater than their benefits."
Colby M. Chester
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"War is the failure of every other form of human communication."
Colby M. Chester
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
James Fisk
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"In peace, children bury their parents. In war, parents bury their children."
James Fisk
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"War is the failure of all other human endeavors to resolve our differences."
Charles Flint
C
"War is a bankruptcy of the spirit as much as of the state."
Charles Flint
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"War taught engineers the limits of resistance; peace teaches them the art of efficiency."
Elmer Sperry
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"War machines evolved; peace machines evolved slower. We should reverse this trend."
Elmer Sperry
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"From war we learned to build stronger; from peace we should learn to build wiser."
Elmer Sperry
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"War reveals what peace conceals about human nature."
Colby M. Chester
C
"War is the failure of all other forms of communication."
Colby M. Chester
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"War teaches harsh lessons about the cost of poor preparation and planning."
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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"The warrior and the merchant are separated only by the weapons they choose."
James Fisk
J
"I have made war upon my competitors and won decisively."
Jay Gould
J
"War between corporations is indistinguishable from war between nations."
Jay Gould
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"War wastes resources; peace multiplies them."
Elmer Sperry
C
"War teaches us the cost of peace more clearly than any philosophy ever could."
Colby M. Chester
C
"War is the ultimate proof that our words have failed."
Colby M. Chester
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"War leaves scars not just on nations but on the human spirit."
James Fisk
J
"War is the failure of diplomacy, and diplomacy is the prevention of war."
James Fisk
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"I view business as strategic warfare."
Jay Gould
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"I treat business as a form of warfare."
Jay Gould
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"War is the failure of those who came before to build sufficient understanding."
Charles Flint
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Mark Hopkins
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"War impoverishes nations and souls alike."
Stephen Girard