You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.
War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.
The paradox of having wars with big objectives, at least in declaratory terms, but only being ready to use limited means and limited levels of mobilization to fight them, puts you in a pretty confused place.
There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.
