“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war”

“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain”

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”

“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. ”

“Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.”

“The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.”