THE 100 BEST WAR AND MILITARY PHRASES [WITH IMAGES] - OTHER PHRASES - 2025

I leave you the best war and military phrases of famous people such as Sun Tzu, Napoleon Bonaparte, John F. Kennedy, Alexander the Great, Abraham Lincoln and many more.

You may also be interested in these phrases against violence or these of historical warriors.

-We should defend our island, whatever the cost, we must fight on the beaches, we must fight on the landing fields, we must fight on the hills, we must never surrender.-Winston Churchill.

-The military does not start wars. Politicians start wars.-William Westmoreland.

-I am not afraid of an army of lions led by sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.-Alexander the Great.

-The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.-Sun Tzu.

-You must not fight too much with an enemy or you will teach your art of war.-Napoleon Bonaparte.

-Only the dead have seen the end of the war.-Plato.

-The two most important warriors are patience and time.-Leo Tolstoy.

41-Humanity must put an end to the war before the war puts an end to humanity.-John F. Kennedy.

-The war does not determine who is right, only who remains.-Bertrand Russell.

-All wars are civil, because all men are brothers.-Francois Fenelon.

"No bastard has ever won by dying for his country." He won by making the other poor bastard die for his country.-George S. Patton.

-Battles are lost with the same spirit with which they are won.-Walt Whitman.

-God created war for Americans to learn geography.-Mark Twain.

-All war is a symptom of the failure of man as a thinking animal.-John Steinbeck.

-History is full of wars that everyone knew would not happen.-Enoch Powell.

-The opposite of war is not peace, it is creation.-Jonathan Larson.

-No war of any nation and time has been declared by its people.-Eugene Debs.

-The war ends… if you want.-John Lennon.

-In war there are no winners.-Ramman Kenoun.

-There are causes that are worth dying for, but not for which are worth killing.-Albert Camus.

-Any war represents a failure of diplomacy.-Tony Benn.

-The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.-Friedrich Nietzsche.

-It is not enough to win the war, it is more important to organize peace.-Aristotle.

-It seems to be weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.-Sun Tzu.

-I do not know with what weapons it was fought in World War III, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.-Albert Einstein.

-The way to win an atomic war is to make sure it never starts.-Omar Bradley.

-A nation that continues year after year spending more money on military defense than on social programs, is approaching spiritual doom.-Martin Luther King Jr.

-The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.-Sun Tzu.

-If we do not end the war, the war will end us.-HG Wells.

-Sometimes you have to take a weapon to lower the weapon.-Malcolm X.

-War is the last tool of politics.-R. Buckminster Fuller.

-The true soldier does not fight because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.-GK Chesterton.

-All wars act like boomerangs and the winner suffers as much as the loser.-Eleanor Roosevelt.

-It is the old men who declare war. But it is the young who fight and die.-Herbert Hoover.

-If everyone fought for their own convictions, there would be no wars.-Leo Tolstoy.

-Never think that war, no matter its need or its justification, is not a crime.-Ernest Hemingway.

-After every war there is a little less democracy to save.-Brooks Atkinson.

-War is a series of catastrophes that result in a victory.-Georges Clemenceau.

-There was never a good war or a bad peace.-Benjamin Franklin.

-No one won the last war and nobody will win the next.-Eleanor Roosevelt.

-War occurs when language fails.-Margaret Atwood.

-The act of war is the last option of democracy.-Joseph C. Wilson.

37-In preparing for battle, plans are useless but planning is essential.-Dwight D. Eisenhower.

-Only the winners decide what were war crimes.-Gary Wills.

-There is no flag long enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.-Howard Zinn.

-When the rich finance the war, it is the poor who die.-Jean-Paul Sartre.

-The war would end if the dead returned.-Stanley Baldwin.

-The supreme excellence consists in breaking the resistance of the enemy without fighting.-Sun Tzu.

-Peace cannot be maintained by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.-Albert Einstein.

-We will have peace even if we have to fight for it.-Dwight D. Eisenhower.

-War is not an adventure. It is a disease.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

-The pioneers of a world without war are the young people who reject military service.-Albert Einstein.

-In peace, children bury their parents; In war parents bury their children.-Herodotus.

-The wars frequently begin ten years before the first shot is fired.-KKV Casey.

-All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to resolve disputes between nations, groups and individuals.-Dalai Lama.

-War means blind obedience, thoughtless stupidity, brutal insensitivity, senseless destruction and irresponsible murder.-Alexander Berkman.

-You can not win more from the war than you earn from an earthquake.-Jeanette Rankin.

43-Force and fraud are the two cardinal virtues in war.-Thomas Hobbes.

-It is much easier to make war than peace.-Georges Clemenceau.

-How can you have a war against terrorism when the war itself is terrorism? -Howard Zinn.

-Make wars unprofitable and you will make them impossible.-A. Philip Randolph.

-The basic problems that the world faces today are not susceptible to a military solution.-John F. Kennedy.

-The war is a very serious subject to be entrusted to the military.-Georges Clemenceau.

-Man is at war with each one because each man is at war with himself.-Francis Meehan.

-War is just a cowardly escape from the problem of peace.-Thomas Mann.

-Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is agreeing. It's harmony.-Laini Taylor.

-The war brings out the most negative human emotional responses on both sides.-Henk Middelraad.

-Even if we get rid of the destruction of war, our lives will have to change if we want to save our lives from self-destruction.-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

-In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; The brave build a wall of defense.-Sallust.

-You can not prevent war and prepare for it at the same time.-Albert Einstein.

-In war there are no unharmed soldiers.-José Narosky.

-The political reasons given for a war do not matter, the underlying reasons are always economic.-AJP Taylor.

-Killing a man is not defending a doctrine, but killing a man.-Michael Servetus.

-Today the real test of power is not the ability to make war, but the ability to prevent it.-Anne O'Hare McCormick.

-In war, the truth is the first chance.-Aeschylus.

-The fastest way to end a war is to lose it.-George Orwell.

-War is sweet for those who have never fought.-Jess Rothenberg.

-War does not make children men, it makes men dead.-Ken Gillespie.

-People don't make wars; governments make it.-Ronald Reagan.

-The absurd and monstrous thing about war is that men who do not have personal conflicts are trained to murder others in cold blood.-Aldous Huxley.

-I dream of giving birth to a child who asks; Mom, what was war? -Eve Merriam.

-The mark of a great ruler is not his ability to wage war, but to achieve peace.-Monica Fairview.

-The war should be a crime and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.-Charles Evans Hughes.

-The prosperity of a war is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.-Ludwig von Mises.

-No prolonged war can endanger the freedom of a democratic country.-Alexis de Tocqueville.

-The war is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.-Carl PG von Clausewitz.

-I came, I saw, I conquered.-Julius Caesar.

35-A sure effect of the war is to decrease freedom of expression.-Howard Zinn.

-Laws are silent in times of war.-Cicero.

-There is nothing that the war has achieved that we could not have achieved without it.-Havelock Ellis.

-From fanaticism to barbarism there is only one step.-Denis Diderot.

-Great is the fault of an unnecessary war.-John Adams.

-The war is a defeat for humanity.-John Paul II.

-The idea of ​​a nuclear war is disturbing.-Walter Goodman.

-A lonely hospital shows what war is.-Erich Maria Remarque.

-A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil.-William Hooke.

-The war is organized murder and torture against our brothers.-Alfred Adler.

-Not only the living are killed in war.-Isaac Asimov.

-The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.-Norman Schwarzkopf.

28-Wars usually have the effect of accelerating the process of history.-Pieter Geyl.

-War is hell.-William Tecumseh Sherman.

-The freedom was attacked this morning by a coward without a face. Freedom will be defended.-President George W. Bush.

-War is the continuation of politics by other means.-Carl von Clausewitz.

-The best form of defense is attack.-Carl von Clausewitz.

-There is only one decisive victory: the last.-Carl von Clausewitz.

-Blood is the price of victory.-Carl von Clausewitz.

-The force always attracts men of low morality.-Albert Einstein.

-Peace cannot be maintained by force; It can only be achieved through understanding.-Albert Einstein.

-The pioneers of a world without wars are the young people who reject military service.-Albert Einstein.

58-I have never defended war, except as a means for peace.-General Ulysses S. Grant.

-War is what happens when language fails.-Mark Twain.

-I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.-Abraham Lincoln.

-The purpose of all war is peace.-Augustine of Hippo.

-The victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while the defeated warriors go to war first and then try to win.-Sun Tzu.

-I hate war, since only a soldier who has lived it, is the only one who has seen its brutality, its uselessness, its stupidity.-Dwight D. Eisenhower.

-The war will exist until that distant day when the object of conscience enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior today.-John. F Kennedy.

-The people you should fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree but are cowards to say it.-Napoleon Bonaparte.

-The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls it, both his own and that of enemies.-Napoleon Bonaparte.

-Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. You have to win it. Defeat brings worse things than those that could happen in war.-Ernest Hemingway.

-If you win the war, you don't need to explain. If you lose, you shouldn't be there to explain.-Adolf Hitler.

-Sometimes by losing a battle, you find a new way to win the war.-Donald Trump.