Henry IV of France Quotes

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders. No doubt several hundred thousand men will be spent to satisfy the military mind in the point.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Here no one fears to die in war … keep this in mind, you princes who would attack Tenochtitlan.

If the minds of men can be turned even for a short time away from passion, race antagonism and from national aggrandizement to a contemplation of the individual and … to the shocking horrors which modern warfare entails, a step, and by no means a short one, will have been taken towards the substitution of justice for force in the settlement of institutional differences.

The object of a general is not to fight, but to conquer: he fights enough who obtains the victory.

I will not agree to go to war in the Donbass. I know there are a lot of hotheads, especially those who hold rallies and say, 'Let's go fight and win it all back!' But at what price? What is the cost? It's another story of lives and land. And I won't do it.

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

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.

The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.

The plan is one worthy... But I cannot accept it, for I would not have a single drop of Brazilian blood spilled for my sake.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to have its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.