All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Category: war
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He’s the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.