War & Conflict Sayings

My choice in 1944 was not my own. I was drafted. It was just as much a draft as if I had been drafted into the Army.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war!

The plow marks the furrow, but the sword defends it.

I am a simple soldier, but I have a mission.

Time is a sword; if you do not cut it, it will cut you.

I am still alive. I am still here. I am still fighting.

War is a blessing for the world and for all mankind.

I am a soldier, and I will die as a soldier.

We didn't come here to live in peace. We came here to conquer.

There are no more worlds to conquer!

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I regret the outbreak of the war and the suffering it caused. I wish that such a thing had not happened.

Ignorance is the greatest enemy of progress.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

The greatest weapon of the colonialist is the mind of the colonized.

The greatest enemy of mankind is not war, but poverty.

We are fighting for the independence of the Congo and for the dignity of the black man.

We are fighting for our land, not for the white man's land. The land belongs to us.