“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no war”
“There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.”
“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the last 30 years] without having gone through a revolution or losing a major war.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other’s throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut.”