“I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heros of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war whic…”— Sam Houston, famoustexans.com
“To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country-the…”— Sam Houston, famoustexans.com
“Y’know, there are tribes in Indonesia where if you keep your coat on in somebody's house, the families go to war.”— Larry Charles, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.”— John Tyler, en.wikiquote.org
“Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilized nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops.”— Alfred Nobel, alfrednobel.org
“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.”— Alfred Nobel, en.wikiquote.org
“If war were purely and absolutely bad in every single aspect and toxic in all its effects, it would probably not happen as often as it does. But in addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly into…”— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com
“The world we are living in -- and the peace that we have -- is very fucked up if somebody is missing war. And many people do.”— Nidzara Ahmetasevic, amazon.com
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”— Robert J.C. Young, amazon.com
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“It only takes a single night of frost to kill off an entire generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing.”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“My husband, did the great work of the war, but Grant, had all the pecuniary compensation.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, en.wikiquote.org
“Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“With his bellicose and insane statement at the United Nations, Trump, you can say, has lit the wick of a war against us.”— Ri Yong Ho, express.co.uk
“They did to others that which they would not they should do to them—that grand principle of immorality upon which rests the whole art of war.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“If women ruled the world," said my wife, "there'd be no wars. That's true," I replied. "Wars require strategy and logic."”— bananadead, reddit.com
“They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men”— Herodotus, amazon.com