# Quote — Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower

> To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless—except the one we’re fighting now?

- Author: [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md)
- Book: [To Green Angel Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower.md)
- Page: 314
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#Part_2) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/to-fight-a-war

## More from this book

> Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.

p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/sometimes-doing-the.md)

> It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.

p. 469 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/it-was-easy.md)

> You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.

p. 523 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/you-can-never.md)