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