Eamon de Valera Quotes

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War is the science of destruction.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is not a thing one wants.

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

We are muddled into war.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

War is an abstraction.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.