"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale." - Bernard Mannes Baruch

"War is like love, it always finds a way." - Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage

"You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them." - Camillo di Cavour Cavour

"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means." - Chou En-Lai, quoted in Saturday Evening Post

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." - Sir Winston Churchill

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." - Sir Winston Churchill, speech (1954)

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Sir Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed." - Cicero, De Officiis

"Laws are silent in time of war." - Cicero, Pro Milone

"All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war." - Kenneth Clark, Civilization

"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will." - Carl de Clausewitz

"Defence is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object." - Carl de Clausewitz

"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers." - Georges Clemenceau, quoted by J. Hampden Jackson in Clemenceau and the Third Republic

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." - Desiderius Erasmus

"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown." - Thomas Hardy

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war." - Ernest Miller Hemmingway

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." - Thomas Jefferson

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory." - General Douglas MacArthur

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth." - General Douglas MacArthur

"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." - Guy de Maupassant

"March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us." - Barry O'Meara

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George S. Patton

"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than ought else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend." - Albert Pike

"You can't say civilisation don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." - Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." - George Washington

"Only the winners decide what were war crimes." - Gary Wills

"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." - Burton, Robert

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." - Coleridge, Samuel (1772-1834)

"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line." - Montague, Charles Edward

"I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: 'I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." - Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-1967) spoken, according to stories, approximately 8 seconds after the d

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." - Patton, George S.

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp." - Pratchett, Terry in 'The Light Fantastic'

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Reagan, Ronald in a radio broadcast test

"Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war." - Shakespear, William (1564-1616)

"All progress means war with society." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)

"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best." - Webster, John

"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)