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Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.