Quotes about war

War and peace.

8 quotes with a known source.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Source: First speech as Prime Minister, House of Commons (13 May 1940)

We shall never surrender.

Source: "We shall fight on the beaches", House of Commons (4 June 1940)

All warfare is based on deception.

Source: The Art of War I.18, tr. Lionel Giles

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Source: The Art of War III.18, tr. Lionel Giles

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Source: The Art of War III.2, tr. Lionel Giles

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Usually credited to Plato online.

Source: Soliloquies in England (1922)

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy.

Source: Address to Congress (8 December 1941)

Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Quotes about war that are usually credited to the wrong person.

PlatoNot theirs

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Actually: George Santayana, Soliloquies in England (1922).