War Quotes

"All this happened, more or less."

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

"And we sleep and eat with death."

"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

"Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun."

"But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it."

"Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder."

"Die a hero or...become the villain."

"Do you feel lucky, punk?"

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"

"Dracarys!"

"Dulce et decorum est"

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

"First rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about Fight Club."

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

"Four score and seven years ago…"

"He who marches out of step hears another drum."

"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."

"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."

"I believe it is peace for our time."

"I have not yet begun to fight."

"I know kung fu."

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

"I sing of arms and the man"

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"

"If I've killed one man, I've killed two"

"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars."

"If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it, I betcha you would have done the same!"

"Imagine all the people, livin' life in peace."

"Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred"

"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."

"It rained fire and brimstone from heaven."

"It's just a shot away"

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

"Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."

"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."

"Mankind must put an end to war—or war will put an end to mankind."

"Money is the root of all evil."

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."

"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"See that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."

"Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once."

"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"

"The British are coming!"

"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

"The face that launched a thousand ships"

"The list is an absolute good. The list is life."

"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"There are no men like me. Only me."

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

"Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner.""

"Tread lightly."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord."

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."

"War is Hell!"

"War is not won by victory."

"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."

"We are the champions, my friends, and we'll keep on fighting 'til the end."

"We don't need no stinkin' badges."

"We have met the enemy and they are ours."

"We must guard against […] unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

"We will, we will rock you."

"What we do in life echoes in eternity."

"Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there."

"Why so serious?"

"Witness me!"

"Ye suffer fools gladly."

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"You got mud on your face, you big disgrace."

"You may say I'm a dreamer."

"You're tearing me apart!"