One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.

War is not won by victory.

No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

Fight not to win, but to avoid losing. A surefire losing strategy.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may
come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Wherever there is a war and painful partition, there will be no winners, human or otherwise.

Winning is better than losing, but everybody loses when the war isn’t one worth fighting.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

It is in this way that a war is disastrous. If it does not kill, it transmits to some an energy alien to their own resources; to others it permits what the law forbids and accustoms them to short cuts. It artificially glorifies ingenuity, pity, daring. A whole younger generation believes itself to be sublime and collapses when it has to draw on itself for patriotism and fate.