George S. Patton Quotes

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

You can’t have peace without a war.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

There can be no compromise with war.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.