Will Rogers Quotes

War is delightful for those who don't know it

Warfare cannot be humanized.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

War is the science of destruction.

The generals were fighting machine guns with the breasts of gallant men.

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

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

War? War is an organized bore.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

War makes early risers of us all.

I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.