Quotes about War, page 4

At some point, I stumbled across a reference to a mission the United States sent to Antartica in 1941, just before the war began.

Quote by Michael Chabon about war

Having chosen to set the book during this period, from the first day I was writing, I knew I was going to have to do something about World War Two.

Quote by Michael Chabon about war

I didn't want to go to places that have been written about so many times by people so much more qualified than I, like James Jones and Norman Mailer who lived through it. I was always searching for my own theater of war.

Quote by Michael Chabon about war

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Quote by Agatha Christie about war

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

“Moral of the Work” In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about war

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about war

In time of war the laws are silent.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about war

Laws are silent in time of war.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about war

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about war

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about war

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about war

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

Quote by William Falconer about war