The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint Augustine
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton