Quotes about war and peace
540 quotes from 231 people
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Tamburlaine (c. 1588), Act I, scene ii, line 132
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Regarding the treatment of former Confederate soldiers. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 312Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 67The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
Martin Amis1949–2023Einstein’s Monsters (1987), “Introduction: Thinkability”
Judith Butlerborn 1956The Force of Nonviolence (2020), Ch. 1, p. 64- Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 3
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee1807–1870Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg (13 December 1862)I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Dispatch to Washington, during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (11 May 1864)
Albert Einstein1879–1955“Atom: Einstein, the Man Who Started It All”, Newsweek (10 March 1947)
William Tecumseh Sherman1820–1891Telegraph to Abraham Lincoln (December 1864), as quoted in Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea (2008), by Noah Andre Trudeau, New York: HarperCollins, p. 508.- KKKen Kesey1935–2001Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
John Kerryborn 1943Testimony before subcommittees of the U.S. Senate, April, 1971
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881–1938His maxim, later the motto of the Republic of Turkey; as quoted in Uluğ İğdemir, Atatürk (1963), p. 200
