Robert Graves Quotes

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to have its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

This war does not strike me as a great evil. The more we are ill-treated abroad the more we shall unite and consolidate at home.

Borders cannot be redrawn in blood.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

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.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.