Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

We seek no wider war.

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

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

War is the trade of Kings.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

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.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

We’re not going to win this war through polling.

Ah, colonel, all’s fair in love and war, you know.

One makes mistakes in every war.