Frederick William I Quotes

I like war.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Killing, and nothing else, is what the army is for, and the only thing it can properly build is killers and killees.

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

War is the science of destruction.

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

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

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

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

History has been the history of warfare.

War is about dead people.

People like to talk about war.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

The people, ever greedy for war, till they suffer by it …

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

We confused the warriors with the war.