Quotes about war

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

George S. Patton

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

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us…[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

Winston Churchill

I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I’d only make myself more miserable.

Anne Frank

Boxing’s in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I’m blessed with the art of war.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

Martin Luther King Jr.

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

Winston Churchill

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

Bill Gates