war quotes

• I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares. (William Morris) [leisure/war/war/war]
• War does not determine who is right - only who is left. (Bertrand Russell) [war/right]
• Business is a combination of war and sport. (Andre Maurois) [business/combination/war/exercise]
• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway) [think/war/matter/crime]
• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. (Ernest Hemingway) [nation/war]
• But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason. (Ernest Hemingway) [war/willpower]
• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. (Thomas Mann) [war/]
• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover) [men/war/youth/fight]
• When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. (Herbert Hoover) [construction/war/politics]
• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. (Franklin Roosevelt) [more/start/war/start]
• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (George Santayana) [delight/war/soldier/quality]
• The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution. (John Adams) [revolution/war/revolution/people]
• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (John Adams) [politics/war/philosophy]
• It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him. ( Baudouin I) [more//war/destroy]
• War is like love, it always finds a way. (Bertolt Brecht) [war/love]
• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. (Samuel Butler) [men/war]
• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves. (Albert Camus) [wonder/war]
• The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. (Albert Camus) [war/storm]
• Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. (Miguel De Cervantes) [love/war/thing]
• Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [marriage/war]
• Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. (Winston Churchill) [war/defeat//goodwill]
• In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times. (Winston Churchill) [war/politics]
• Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. (Winston Churchill) [politics/war/war/politics]
• In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. (Winston Churchill) [war/life/take]
• In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. (Winston Churchill) [war/defeat//goodwill]
• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. (Marcus Cicero) [/war]
• The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money. (Marcus Cicero) [war/money]
• All the gods are dead except the god of war. (Eldridge Cleaver) [god/war]
• Peace is produced by war. (Pierre Corneille) [/war]
• That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. (Noel Coward) [strange/feeling/war]
• God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. (John Donne) [god/age/war/]

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