The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas Jefferson
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark Twain
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