“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”
Others on War
Thomas Hobbes
5 quotes“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
Will Rogers
4 quotes“you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way”
Ludwig von Mises
4 quotes“Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
3 quotes“... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...”
Erasmus
3 quotes“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”
Herodotus
2 quotes“In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.”
Tacitus
2 quotes“A bad peace is worse than war.”
General Douglas MacArthur
2 quotes“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.”
Eisenhower
2 quotes“In war there is no substitute for victory.”
George Orwell
2 quotes“...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”
Joe Abercrombie
2 quotes“Those with the least always lose the most in war.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
2 quotes“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”