It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. – Fred Woodworth
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. – Herbert V. Prochnow
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases… found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second. – S.L.A. Marshall
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender. – Winston Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. – Winston Churchill
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Bertrand Russell
All war is deception. – Sun Tzu
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. – John Stuart Mill
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. – Sun Tzu
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. – Niccolo Machiavelli
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. – George Santayana
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. – George Orwell
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. – Euripides
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. – Salvador Dali
