Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great…

In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than…

— Charles C. Mann

We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman…

— George H. W. Bush

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

— Cory Doctorow

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with…

— Hisham Melhem

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

— Julie Burchill

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

— Baron de Montesquieu

When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the…

— Orhan Pamuk

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and…

— Eliot Engel

The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly…

— Noam Chomsky

Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy…

— Scott Anderson

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

— George Sand

Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.

— Anonymous

“People will tell you it was Vietnam brought this country to its knees. But I never believed that. It was already in bad shape.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“A bad peace is worse than war.”

— Tacitus

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences…

— Reinhold Niebuhr