“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”
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“War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.”
“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
“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.”
“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”
“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”
“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.”
“All war is based on deception.”
“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”
“War is a contagion.”
“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
“Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.”
“War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.”