Top 100 War Is Won Quotes
#1. First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.
Elizabeth Berg
#2. There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
Billy Joel
#3. The war is won but the battle rages, the lion is toothless yet roars, the clown frowns but the Son Shines, the Trumpet is ready to sound, the sword drawn, and the white horse ready to descend, whose rider is called Faithful and True.
Jonah Books
#4. War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if the war is won, will create a new enemy, a new evil equal to and often worse than the one that was defeated.
Eckhart Tolle
#6. Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.
Julie Burchill
#7. I study the chessboard and concede defeat.
"You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.
Haruki Murakami
#8. You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?
Jackson Browne
#10. When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
Romain Gary
#11. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.
Julie Burchill
#13. When I get home and people ask me,'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you. And that's it. That's all it is.
Black Hawk
#14. The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Lady, I have never been a hero, no Ryam Redwyne or Barristan the Bold. I've won no tourneys, no renown in war ... but I was a knight once, and you have helped me remember what that meant. My life is a poor thing, but it is yours.
George R R Martin
#16. A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.
Rick Riordan
#17. Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.
Sarah Kay
#18. The only reason Henry's like he is now is because your father took him in hand when he was a boy, and because the war came along and paid for his education. Fine a boy as he is, the trash won't wash out of him.
Harper Lee
#19. The battle for popularity is won, but the war for respect as a whole person is lost.
Mary Pipher
#20. Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. "Victorious and dead," some muttered, "is a poor sort of victory.
M.L. Stedman
#21. A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?
Ronald Reagan
#22. I won the battles, Justin. And I won the war. And now there is no more fighting. Now there is peace. You told me to let the joy win out, and I am choosing to do that.
Jessica Park
#23. It makes no since to fight a war that is already won.
Angela Brown
#24. You can't lose this war, because your Father has already won. This isn't a battle of skin and bones, flesh and blood. This is about your faith, about your identity. When you discover who you truly are, you discover there is no war left to fight at all.
Rachelle Dekker
#25. Brambleclaw dipped his head. "The battle is won," he growled. "The clearing is ours. Do you concede or shall we fight for it again?"
Blackstar flashed a look of burning hatred over his shoulder. "Take it," he hissed. "It was never worth the blood that has been spilled here today.
Erin Hunter
#26. STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years.
George Lucas
#27. If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.
Greg Mortenson
#28. The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.
Paul Vixie
#29. A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#30. I love you more than life itself, Arodi, you mean everything to me. I'm lost without you. I swear by all that is holy and sacred to me that I will never leave you, and I won't die on you. I'm never going to leave you alone.
C.N. Faust
#31. Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton Jr.
#32. The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
Carol Moseley Braun
#33. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu
#34. Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war
Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war
Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost
Steven Moffat
#35. But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
George H. W. Bush
#36. When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House.
Jeff Greenfield
#37. Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Arthur Wellesley
#38. It's interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It's a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It's fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won't vote for war.
Sarah Gavron
#39. I'm afraid my common sense, which was in short supply to begin with, wil be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over.
Anne Frank
#41. The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
Clare Short
#42. Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.
Newt Gingrich
#43. Peace without shield and weapon is a no man's land.
Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested.
Toba Beta
#44. I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't.
Arthur Golden
#45. The day is won [ ... ] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.
George R R Martin
#46. I'm trying to tell him everything will be all right, but how can I say it with a straight face? My son's no idiot. He knows when I'm lying.
The medicine won't taste bad.
The bath is not hot.
Daddy will be safe.
Lies.
Suzanne Hayes
#47. A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
Eric Hoffer
#48. The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.
Chester W. Nimitz
#49. I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#50. History is written by the victor, and if the elderly don't pass down their memories, eventually there won't be anyone else left alive who knows how the war was really fought.
Rachel Vincent
#51. Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
Bob Hawke
#52. War is nothing more than organized insanity. That's why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don't, we won't live to tell about it.
R.G. Risch
#53. To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
Alexander Haig
#55. Modern war is fearing the air, the shadows, fearing the silence. Death will come and I won't even see it.
Pierce Brown
#56. I was reminded of our history lessons, in which we learned about the loot or bounty an army enjoys when a battle is won. I began to see the awards and recognition just like that. They were little jewels without much meaning. I needed to concentrate on winning the war.
Malala Yousafzai
#57. There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to him of his war, including the military costs. If we won'€t provide military materiel to Ukraine now, we deserve the contempt with which Putin regards us.
Rich Lowry
#58. I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'
Jesse Ventura
#59. Russians, hear this: A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to ensure they will never be used.
Brad Magnarella
#60. It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.
Georgy Zhukov
#61. A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
Maaza Mengiste
#62. A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.
Leo Tolstoy
#63. Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#64. Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our reaction. We're steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we'll have to start displaying scalps.
George W. Bush
#65. Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more.
... George S. Patton
George S. Patton Jr.
#67. We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.
Silvio Berlusconi
#68. Nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
Charles Bukowski
#69. The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#70. It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.
Duop Chak Wuol
#71. The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
Simon Schama
#72. It just seems like the culture war is over, and the gay kissers won.
Bill Maher
#73. Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?" "No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale.
Seth Dickinson
#74. No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
Edmund H. North
#77. Perhaps the war is never won," Pierce said. "We must simply find satisfaction in survival.
Keith Baker
#78. Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.
Kenneth Waltz
#79. The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig
#80. My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
Robert Dallek
#81. But anyone who believes in the war on drugs is missing a crucial point as to why the war can never be won. Feeling good will never go out of style.
Ryan Vanderford
#82. The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
Mike Lee
#83. It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#84. Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
Abraham Lincoln
#86. After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.
Lech Walesa
#87. These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.
Boris Johnson
#88. Seconds ebb and wane. She's not afraid of her voice anymore, but she's not entirely sure she trusts it. She's seen the damage caused with a single word. Right now, each one is a weapon, a conduit of war, and she won't just throw them out there all willy-nilly.
Laura Kreitzer
#89. Satan's ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war.
Victor L. Brown
#90. I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won't stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II.
Shelley Berkley
#91. So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.
Barack Obama
#92. A new war is going to begin. And I won't give in until I win. That's the only war I care about, the one for your heart.
Addison Moore
#93. War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.
Kenneth Kaunda
#94. When the sound of victorious guns burst over London at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, the men and women who looked incredulously into each other's faces did not cry jubilantly: " We've won the war! " They only said: " The War is over.
Vera Brittain
#95. If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#96. Whoever won the wars in heavens,
He is The God of men today.
Toba Beta
#97. We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
Earl Blumenauer
#98. Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway,
#99. There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself
Mark Owen
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