War
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
- Aquinas, St. Thomas
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
- Baruch, Bernard Mannes
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
- Bradley, Omar
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- Churchill, Winston
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
- Cleghorn, Sarah
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
- de Maupassant, Guy
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
- di Cavour, Camillo
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- Erasmus, Desiderius
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.
- Hardy, Thomas
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
- Hemingway, Ernest
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Jefferson, Thomas
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
- Le Gallienne
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
- MacArthur, Douglas
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
- MacArthur, Douglas
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.
- MacArthur, Douglas
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
- Pike, Albert
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.
- Pythagoras
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
- Rabelais
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
- Ray, James
A bad peace is even worse than war.
- Tacitus
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
- von Clausewitz, Carl
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
- von Clausewitz, Carl
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
- Washington, George
