Mark Twain Quotes

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Nations make wars; states make wars; and cultures make wars. We tend to conflate the three, but they are very different wars.

In war ... diplomacy is the handmaiden of the necessities of the War Office.

Any state surrounded by enemies will seek strategic depth.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

War is the usual condition of Europe.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

War is the trade of Kings.