Quotes about War
God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.
— Anonymous
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
— George Bernard Shaw
it came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.
— JM Coetzee
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
— John Milton
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.
— George W. Bush
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
— Virginia Woolf
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
— Theodore Roosevelt