Bess Truman Quotes

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

War is the science of destruction.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

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

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.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

We are muddled into war.

History has been the history of warfare.

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

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

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

There will be plenty of fighting in the coming years and in a magnitude far beyond this. Prepare yourself.

War is no damn football game.

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

Battles are the principle milestones in secular history.

The sad reality of war is that if you are going to be in day-to-day combat, there are going to be casualties.

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

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

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

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.