War & Conflict Sayings

Secrecy, being a weapon of injustice, is never to be endured.

The order of the world rests on the sword, and the sword's sharpness depends on the treasury.

The wounds received in battle are honorable, but those received by the tongue are incurable.

For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?

Argument is the worst enemy of truth.

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

I am a man of peace, and I hate war.

My brush is my sword, and my canvas is my battlefield.

He was always ready to pick a quarrel or engage in a fight.

I have a mind that is perpetually at war with itself.

I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them as I pleased.

I am a poor man, and I have nothing but my sword.

I have come to open a new route, not to conquer land.

Better to die a conqueror than live a beggar.

It is not, that I am an enemy to the practice of inoculation; on the contrary, I am a warm friend to it, and have been so for many years. But I am convinced, that the present mode of conducting it is attended with many disadvantages, and that it may …

For the nature of man is such, that he is always desirous of new things, and of change; and therefore, if there be no common power to keep him in awe, he will be continually in a state of war.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.