Famous war quotes

[lame54]

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15 Famous Quotes About War
War evokes such conflicting emotions--horror, glory, shame, pride, and sorrow--that it is often difficult to express them in words. Here is what some have said about war.
1. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.
--William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), U.S. general. From a speech, Columbus, Ohio, August 11, 1880.
2. All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.
--Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese statesman. From On Protracted War (1938).


3. All wars are popular for the first thirty days.
--Attributed to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917- ), U.S. historian.

4. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

[Reader Rabbit]

1. There was never a good war or a bad peace.—Ben Franklin

"What would that world be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality."—Ursula K. LeGuin

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"—Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Save me from ! To pour your life into sons for eighteen or twenty years, and then have the government take them away and waste them cleaning up after some failure of politics? No thanks!"—Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan (LMB)

[lame54]

5. are you sure he didn't say "bad piece"?

horny old Ben

[Reader Rabbit]

7. While he took his duties as a founding "father" seriously...

...I think we can give ol' Ben the benefit of the doubt on this one. Either way, it makes sense, though. Maybe he was the first one to articulate the "Make love not war" idea!

:P

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."

dick cheney

[mod mom]

3. "War is a Racket" Smedley Butler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

Smedley Butler (infamous around these parts for his testimony in FDR coup):

BBC on FDR Assassination Attempt

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

[TahitiNut]

4. “Peace is not an absence of war, ..."

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)


NEVER forget this.

[Jim__]

6. Either war is obsolete or men are. - Buckminster Fuller

[lame54]

8. "I'm a war prez'nit" - guess who

[LeftishBrit]

9. From "Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen

'If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in...
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.'

(The poem is about a gas victim of WW1. Owen was killed just before the war ended.)