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Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.