George Armstrong Custer Quotes

My sentence is for open war.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

Every war is different. It's of its own kind.

We're in a world war.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

War is the science of destruction.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

No two wars are identical.

Wars begin where you will but they end where they will.

I have picked up this vibe that...you’re going to have this massive strike with massed weapons, and basically that’s going to be it, and we just clean up the battlefield after that.

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Fighting is worldwide. Fighting is fighting, everyone understands what it is.

War? War is an organized bore.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.