You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will Rogers

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

All war is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Sun Tzu

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Sun Tzu

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Sun Tzu

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde