Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The history of mankind is a history of war.

My sentence is for open 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.

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

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

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

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

If we have to go to war, we will.

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

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.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

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.

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.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.