Agatha Christie Quotes

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand. That's when it's newsworthy. When the war ends, it's not newsworthy anymore; no one wants to think about it. Actually, the aftermath is the most important part. It's when people have to rebuild.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

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

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I will not be the first American President who lost a war!