Top 471 War Quotes

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only principle by which humanity will ever be saved.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.