Apprehension Quote by David Lloyd George

“War, in short, concentrated the mind. It had proven possible to convert a whole country into a war machine around a war economy; why…

— Tony Judt

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

— Leslie Parrish

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

— Robert E. Lee

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

— Anonymous

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for…

— Terry Pratchett

“War...strengthened the position of the armament industries...to a point...that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations...war barbarised…

— Doris Lessing

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if…

— Ludwig Quidde

The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the…

— Anonymous

“a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; and”

— James A. Michener