Quotes about war

Quotes

1. Silly people, and there are many, not only in enemy countries, might discount the force of the United States. Some said they were soft, others that they would never be united. They would fool around at a distance. They would never come to grips. They would never stand bloodletting. Their democracy and system of recurrent elections would paralyse their war horizon to friend or foe. Now we should see the weakness of this numerous but remote, wealthy, and talkative people. But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch.

   • War

   p. 540

2. 

   In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.

   • War

3. 

   Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of communism... As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism. Thus were set on foot those kindred movements which were destined soon to plunge the world into more hideous strife, which none can say has ended with their destruction.

   • Politics
   • History
   • War

   p. 13

4. 

   Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

   • War
   • Success and failure

5. 

   No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. I could not foretell the course of events. I do not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of Japan, but now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder.

   • War

6. 

   Those who are prone, by temperament and character, to seek sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure problems, who are ready to fight whenever some challenge comes from a foreign power, have not always been right. On the other hand, those whose inclination is to bow their heads, to seek patiently and faithfully for peaceful compromise, are not always wrong. On the contrary, in the majority of instances they may be right, not only morally, but from a practical standpoint. How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will! Religion and virtue alike lend their sanctions to meekness and humility, not only between men but between nations. How many wars have been precipitated by firebrands! How many misunderstandings which led to wars could have been removed by temporizing! How often have countries fought cruel wars and then after a few years found themselves not only friends but allies!

   • War

7. 

   The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

   • War
   • Fear

   p. 529

8. 

   War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

   • War
   • Mistakes

9. 

   Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat.

   • War
   • Success and failure

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