~ The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. ~
~ The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. ~
~ The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. ~
~ Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ~
~ How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business. ~
~ War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. ~
~ Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. ~
~ War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics. ~
~ In time of war the first casualty is truth. ~
~ War is not one disaster of milions of people. War is milions of disasters of one person. ~
~ War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. ~
~ Every war is a national misfortune ~