War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
I'm a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I'm like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I die, I have to make a war movie, a Western, and a movie like Mike Nichols, because I...
My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your...
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.
The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
