First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot easier to say, than the first thing I ever killed was a man

A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win