Accustomed Quote by Benjamin Franklin

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.

— Margaret MacMillan

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

— Livy

Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

— Pieter Geyl

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!

— Pitirim Sorokin

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

— Harry S. Truman

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

— Walter Russell

“War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Gene Roddenberry

“If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish)”

— George R.R. Martin

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their…

— Thomas Jefferson

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

— Barbara Tuchman