War Quotes

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
- Herbert Hoover

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
- Douglas Jerrold

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
- George Meredith

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
- Gerome Gragni

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 Bismark

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
- Victor Hugo

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
- Joseph Heller

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
- Aldous Huxley

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
- Andre Gide