Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is the science of destruction.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

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

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

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

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

Bloody Ground

War is no damn football game.

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

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

Now, a river of blood will divide France from its enemies.