Top 5 Kenneth Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “They call war an art, but it isn’t. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one’s own ends – and that’s not art: that’s business.”

— Kenneth Roberts

2. “That’s all war is – a consuming fever: a period of delirium and insanity, of misery, disappointment, discomfort, anxiety, despair, waste, weariness, boredom, brutality, death; and yet to every man in every war there comes a day worth living for: a day when a lifetime of excitement is packed into a few short hours.”

— Kenneth Roberts

3. “I wouldn’t care to shoot my own townsmen over a difference of opinion about politics. Keep ‘em yourself if you think you need ‘em; but I suggest you’ll be better off to put ’em away where you can’t get at ’em. The trouble with a pistol is that if you show it, you’ve got to use it, and once you use it you’ve committed yourself.”

— Kenneth Roberts

4. “All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.”

— Kenneth Roberts

5. “Approaching us through a haze of dust that overhung the road was a long column of men – a slovenly column that marched irregularly and out of step, so that it had the look of a gigantic centipede whose feet hurt.”

— Kenneth Roberts

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