Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) 

The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965) 

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) 

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig 

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)  , 1783

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus 

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
George Clemenceau 

War will cease when men refuse to fight.
Fridtjof Hansen 

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)