All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them




Sir John Fisher














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

Agatha Christie












No war is inevitable until it breaks out

A. J. P. Taylor













Any excuse will serve a tyrant


Aesop



















In war, truth is the first casualty

Aeschylus




































We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace


James D. Watkins




















Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...


Abraham Lincoln














Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both


~Abraham Flexner