Living Quotes

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
— Ulysses S. Grant

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
— Francois Fenelon

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
— Ernest Hemingway

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
— General George S. Patton

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."
— Joseph Stalin

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."
— Joseph Stalin

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
— Joseph Stalin

"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books."
— Walt Whitman

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
— John Stuart Mill

"We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart."
— Albert Einstein

"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them."
— General Douglas MacArthur

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
— General Douglas MacArthur

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
— General Omar Bradley

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
— Winston Churchill

"In war there is no prize for the runner-up."
— General Omar Bradley

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill