Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Wars begin where you will but they end where they will.

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

Terrour ... makes short warres

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

We are muddled into war.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

Every war is different. It's of its own kind.

War’s very object is victory—not prolonged indecision.

It would win for us a proud title—we would become the first aggressors for peace.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

When you go to war it is highly unlikely that it will end with a neat, tidy conclusion.

It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it, the less will be the ardor of our opponents.

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Your power, which is already very great, you can increase more by peace than by war. For the outcome of war is uncertain. More often you see adversity rather than prosperity accompany it.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

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