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  • War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

    Travel   War   Adventure  
    Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”
  • Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  • All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

    Money   War   Battle  
    Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459
  • When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

    War   Blow   Past  
  • Battle... brings out all that is best.

  • If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com
  • Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

    Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.
  • I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

    War   House   Cooking  
  • Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

    The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Epitoma Rei Militaris bk. 3, prologue See Aristotle 4
  • War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

    Peace   War   Fighting  
    "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.
  • Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

    Death   Peace   War  
  • Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  • I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

    Dream   Peace   Military  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

    War   Battle   Reason  
  • In war there is no substitute for victory.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

    Brother   War   Evil  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.40, e-artnow
  • The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

    Business   War   Army  
    Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.59, Adams Media
  • If we don't end war, war will end us.

    Peace   War   Remembrance  
    H. G. Wells (2016). “You Can't Be Too Careful”, p.9, Read Books Ltd
  • Know the enemy and know yourself.

    Fear   Military   War  
    The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)
  • Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

    Strength   Peace   War  
  • If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

    Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.

    Military   War   Issues  
    B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

    Peace   War   Battle  
    Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.
  • 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.

    Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers
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