Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

War is a defeat for humanity.