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