Hostilities Quotes

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

Conflict with our allies in a war is terrible. But the only thing worse is fighting a war without allies.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a good chance of eventually being fought.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

... whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced between the Government of the United States of America and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States of America: .... we do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects to observe a strict neutrality in and during the aforesaid hostilities, and to abstain from violating or contravening either the laws and statutes of the realm in this behalf or the law of nations in relation thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at their peril.

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

War is a contagion.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

War’s very object is victory—not prolonged indecision.

I'm reporting on a world at war.

It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it, the less will be the ardor of our opponents.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Be polite. Write diplomatically. Even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

I, very early thought it would be best to effect a peace through the medium of war.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.