Quotes about war

Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

John Green

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

George Orwell

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

Nikola Tesla

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you – a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

Winston Churchill

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Tony Blair

War is a contagion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell

You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.

Winston Churchill

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

George S. Patton