Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

Gustav Stresemann

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Calvin Coolidge

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristophanes

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

Al Capone

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

George Washington

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

George Washington

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

Albert Einstein

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

Alfred Nobel’s discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Pierre Curie