William Wallace Quotes

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Violence always leads to more violence…. To the conqueror comes a conqueror.

One active campaign, a smart action, and burning two or three their towns, will set everything to rights.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

If we have to go to war, we will.

My sentence is for open war.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

War is the science of destruction.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

We seek no wider war.

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

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

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.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

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.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Killing more people won't help matters.