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War Quotes

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), Autobiography (1977)

 

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

 

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) (attributed)

 

War is not nice.
Barbara Bush (1925 - )

 

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), The People, Yes (1936)

 

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

 

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)

 

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)

 

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad

 

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)
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