Guam Saying Quotes
We are equal in war but not in peace.
Guam Saying, Quoted by Ben Blaz, U. S. Congressman (Guam), Letter to New York Times, October 19, 1991
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
The veracity depends on how one defines a democracy. Serbia attacked Croatia and Bosnia—all fledgling democracies. Argentina, claiming to be a democracy, attacked England by invading the Falkland Islands. Hitler was elected in Germany in a free and fair election, and once they started their aggressive war Germany became a Fascist Dictatorship. What appears to be the case is that stable industrial democracies never make war on each other.
This seems to be the origin of the notion that democracies and republics are less likely to war with others than monarchies or dictatorships.