War

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In war, truth is the first casualty.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Many are brave when the enemy flees.

Many are brave when the enemy flees.

Italian proverbs

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian proverbs

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Benjamin Franklin

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Do not praise yourself when going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.

Do not praise yourself when going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.

Russian proverbs

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

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.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Eleanor Roosevelt