Anonymous Quotes

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

I should not care to live half-frozen in a trench, up to my middle in water, for three or four months, because someone in authority said I ought to shoot Germans. But if I were a Frenchman I should do it, because I would have been accustomed to the idea by my compulsory military service.

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

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers..

We often fight wars with our young.

I like 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.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

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

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

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.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.