Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
--Josephus Daniels--

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stewart Mill--

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
--William Tecumseh Sherman--

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
--Will Rogers--

We make war that we may live in peace.
--Aristotle--

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