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It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.
Pythagoras583–491 BCOften credited to Tacitus
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult⁠—to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XXII.
- Democracy
All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
George S. Patton1885–1945War As I Knew It
- Fear
Short-circuiting the long-established principles of patient negotiation leads to war, not peace.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024
A bad peace is even worse than war.
Tacitus55–120
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
George S. Patton1885–1945
It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory.
George S. Patton1885–1945
The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail.
George W. Bushborn 1946Invasion of Afghanistan (October 2001)
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
George S. Patton1885–1945
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula.
George S. Patton1885–1945
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“Only Then Shall We Find Courage”, New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946).
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Interview with Alfred Werner, Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Statement on the Atomic Bomb to Raymond Swing, before 1 October 1945, as reported in Atlantic Monthly, vol. 176, no. 5 (November 1945), in Einstein on Politics, p. 373
It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Russell–Einstein Manifesto (1955)Often credited to Albert Einstein