War

• "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
• "War is half of the truth. Peace is the other half. Which side are you?" - source unknown
• "In war, the moral is to the material as three is to one." - Napoleon Bonaparte
• "Sweat saves blood." - Erwin Rommel
• "War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men" - Georges Clemenceau
• "In war there is no prize for the runner-up" - General Omar Bradley
• "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." - General Douglas MacArthur
• "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood." - William Shakespeare King Henry V , Act 3 scene 1
• "When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite." - Sir Winston Churchill
• "So long as there are men there will be wars" - Albert Einstein
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
• The ancient Roman expression "if you want peace prepare for war" is from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius. In Latin: "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." Actual Translation: "Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war."
• "I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice
• "The purpose of all war is ultimately peace." - Saint Augustine
• "War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left" -anonymous
• "Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!" - Stonewall Jackson's reply to Colonel B.E. Bee when he reported that the enemy were beating them back. At the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861
• "It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
• "War is hell." William Tecumseh Sherman
• "War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided." - Philip Bobbitt, in "The Shield of Achilles"
• "Don't talk to me about atrocities; all war is an atrocity." -- Field-Marshall Horatio Herbert, Lord Kitchener
• "I regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-- and it may be well that we become so hardened." -- General William T. Sherman (letter to his wife, July 1864)
• "If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army." -- Frederick the Great
• "War in our time has become an anachronism. Whatever the case in the past, war in the future can serve no usefull purpose. A war which became general, as any limited action might, would only result in the virtual destruction of mankind." -- General Dwight David Eisenhower
• "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. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953; Source: A speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors)
• "It is a tribute to the humanity of ordinary people that horrible acts must be camouflaged [with words] like security, peace, freedom, democracy, the 'national interest'." - Howard Zinn, Boston University professor and former Second World War bomber pilot, USA.
• "There are certain facts and stories from Korea that editors and publishers have printed which were pure fabrication... Many of us who sent the stories knew they were false, but we had to write them because they were official releases from responsible military headquarters and were released for publication even though the people responsible knew they were untrue." - Robert C Miller, United Press correspondent during the Korean War.
• "When people decry civilian deaths caused by the U.S government, they're aiding propaganda efforts. In sharp contrast, when civilian deaths are caused by bombers who hate America, the perpetrators are evil and those deaths are tragedies. When they put bombs in cars and kill people, they're uncivilized killers. When we put bombs on missiles and kill people, we're upholding civilized values. When they kill, they're terrorists. When we kill, we're striking against terror." - Norman Solomon from "Orwellian Logic 101 - A Few Simple Lessons".
• "They're missing so much and getting such a biased picture, but they get this shopping list from America every morning. For instance, I was asked to find some people for the 'Why do they all hate us?' story. So I went and got a section of academics, politicians and high profile commentators. The sort of people you'd expect if you were doing it in America. And they said 'No, no, no. What we want is a really angry mullah with a turban and a beard who looks like he hates us.'" - Pakistani Jornalist working for USA news TV station CNN in Pakistan during the 2001 bombing of Afghanistan.
• "[Terrorists] have no specific ideological reason program or demands. Rather, they are driven by a generalised hatred of the USA, Israel and other supposed enemies of Islam." - Thomas Friedman writing for the USA newspaper the New York Times about why the USA is so often a target of terrorism.