Famous Quotes

"War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."

Niccolo Machiavelli 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 Niccolo Machiavelli

• "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

• "One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."

• "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."

• "A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."

• "Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."