Anne Perry Quotes

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

We are fighting in our own house. It is useless to live on burned ruins.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

We want to resolve this peacefully but if we can’t, there are some things worth fighting for.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Fighting a war can cost more in blood and money than any other undertaking in which nations engage.

Our sacrifices are terrible. I can safely say that there is no other part of the world which has been devastated on a vaster scale than Yugoslavia. Every tenth Yugoslav has perished in this struggle in which we were forced to wrest armaments from our enemies, to freeze without clothing, and to die without medication

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

The people who are sending our men and women in uniform into conflict need to understand that there are some things worth fighting for, but also understand the high cost of war.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'