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If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

All warfare is based on deception.

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.