Famous Quotes By Famous People on the Subject of War

• There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory,but, boys, it is all hell - Gen. William T. Sherman
• The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility - Fisher
• War is the science of destruction - John Abbott
• Providence is always on the side of the big battalions - Sevigne
• War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be throughly studied - Sun Tzu
• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans - Macchiavelli
• Not with dreams but with blood and iron, shall a nation be moulded at last - Swinburne
• No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it - Winston Churchill
• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies - Lester Pearson
• We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it - Max Lerner
• No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power - Charles Colton
• Nothing good ever comes of violence - Martin Luther
• Give me the money that has been spent in war, and ... I will clothe every man, woman and child in attire of which kings and queens would be proud - Henry Richard
• That mad game the world so loves to play - Jonathon Swift