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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about War

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Hero, Honor

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Humanity
"Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

After victory, you have more enemies.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Enemy, Victory

Let reason govern desire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Desire, Reason

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Philosophical, May
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.26, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Good Life, War

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Believe

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Order, May
"Cicero's Offices". Book by Cicero, 44 BC.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Philosophical, Law
Pro Milone ch. 11

The more laws, the less justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Law

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, War, Philosophical

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sweet, Peace, War

Laws are inoperative in war

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Military, War, Law

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, Money, War

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Home, Army

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Civil War
"Philippics". 2. 15. 37,

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Revenge, War, Defense
"On the Republic. On the Laws".

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Past, Remembrance

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Latin, Rome
Pro Milone ch. 11

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Law, Dumb

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Safety, Honor
"On the Commonwealth". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 54-51 BC.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Unjust

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Way, Should

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Form, Endless

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