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Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial. William Shakespeare War 4,723
If you win you need not have to explain...If you lose you should not be there to explain Adolf Hitler War 866
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! David G. Farragut War 565
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein War 398
The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental. John Steinbeck War 391
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover War 266
You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you. Leon Trotsky War 247
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin War 227
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. Herbert Hoover War 227
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. George McGovern War 226
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me. Neil Kinnock War 223
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus War 207
What I could not support was a dumb war a rash war a war based not on reason but on passion not on principle but on politics. Barack Obama War 191
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. Albert Einstein War 187
Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum! Omar Khayyam War 186
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit War 186
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. Tony Benn War 176
America is addicted to wars of distraction. Barbara Ehrenreich War 174
An unjust peace is better than a just war. Marcus Tullius Cicero War 154
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil General Douglas MacArthur War 152
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war. George W. Bush War 146
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee War 144
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway War 143
History is a symptom of our disease Mao Tse tung War 142
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell War 139
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway War 136
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. Leo Tolstoy War 134
I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down. General Douglas MacArthur War 132
You cant hammer in a nail with words... No but you can start a war with them. Ben Galley War 129
War is what happens when language fails. Margaret Atwood War 126
There is no such thing as a war hero because there is nothing about war that is heroic. Michel Templet War 123
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton War 122
They died hard, those savage men, like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. Douglas MacArthur War 121
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy War 121
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez War 120
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. Anatole Broyard War 120
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. Omar N. Bradley War 120
They used to say the pen is mightier than the sword. I think the camera is. Jeremy Gilley War 119
A dull decent people cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. George Orwell War 119
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. Walt Whitman War 119
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. Otto von Bismarck War 118
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. Marco Tempest War 118
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war we have felt we still feel the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.War 117
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Albert Einstein War 117
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. Ronald Reagan War 115
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte War 115
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin War 115
War remains the decisive human failure. John Kenneth Galbraith War 115
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives. Jonathan Haidt War 114
War is like a monster he says almost to himself. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows. Hes looking at me now. And otherwise normal men become monsters too 392. Patrick Ness War 113

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