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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar N. Bradley

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Henry Ellis

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas A. Edison

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Napoleon Hill

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Albert Pike

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

John Stuart Mill

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Barbara Tuchman

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

George Herbert

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John F. Kennedy

War would end if the dead could return.

Stanley Baldwin

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali