War is what happens when language fails.
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Margaret Atwood
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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Ernest Hemingway
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Leo Tolstoy
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Barbara Tuchman
Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.
[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy.
To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January 4, 1957, this sentence: "We still do not know at any level that really matters, why Wilson took the fateful decision to bring...
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
