Famous Quotes

"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."

George Bernard Shaw on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "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 Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by George Bernard Shaw

• "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

• "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

• "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

• "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

• "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."