War Quotes

"There is a wide difference between a blockade and a siege."

"The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier."

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."

"War is the failure of justice, not its instrument."

"If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the spring of popular government in time of revolution is at once virtue and terror."

"War is the scourge of humanity; peace is its blessing."

"War is the ultimate failure of politics, yet politicians wage it as if it were policy by other means."

"War is a failure of diplomacy, and yet sometimes it becomes necessary."

"War leaves scars that fade more slowly than wounds in flesh."

"War destroys more than nations; it destroys the souls of those who wage it."

"War is the failure of all other forms of communication; it is the language of desperation."

"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy's."

"I love the smell of gunpowder in the morning... it smells like victory."

"A leader has the right and responsibility to break the morale of his enemies."

"In war, the moral is half the battle."

"Rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass: such is the price of flattering yourself that perchance you yet cherish hope."

"A just war is worth more than an unjust peace."

"The regulars are out"

"War should be the last resort of nations"

"Peace through strength, never through weakness"

"War brings out both the worst and the best in human nature"

"War tests the mettle of nations and individuals alike"

"In war, the greatest enemy is often self-doubt."

"A true soldier is not one who has the most weapons but one with the most conviction."

"An appeal to arms and the God of our fathers is all that is left us."

"We must fight! An appeal to arms and the God of our fathers is all that is left us."

"War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement."

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded."

"Arms are the last argument of kings."

"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."