I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.