War

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus of Lydia, 595 - 547 BC

A great war leaves the country with three armies; an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
- German proverb

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
- Stanislaus J. Lec

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
- Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
- Ambrose Bierce