War quotes

“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.” Ambrose Bierce

“Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.” Ambrose Bierce

“Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.” Ambrose Bierce

“Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.” Ambrose Bierce

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.” Ambrose Bierce

“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.” Ambrose Bierce

“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” Stephen Covey

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” James Baldwin

“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.” George Marshall

“Business is a combination of war and sport.” Andre Maurois

“A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.” Rita Rudner

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” Sun Tzu

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Sun Tzu

“Quickness is the essence of the war.” Sun Tzu

“The war against terrorism is terrorism.” Woody Harrelson