War Quotes

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.
- Colonel Potter

There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
- James Morrow

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
- Ronald D. Fuchs

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- Bertrand Russell

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
- Napoleon Hill

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
- Ambrose Bierce

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
- Francis Meehan

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
- Franklin P. Jones