Calamity Quote by Frank B. Kellogg

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

— David Remnick

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an…

— Arthur Henderson

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point…

— Antony Beevor

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them…

— Gary Wolf

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

— Aristotle

A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself…

— Romain Rolland

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

— Chuck Hagel

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the…

— Edward R. Murrow

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst…

— George Washington

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

— Paul Bloom

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

— Eleanor Roosevelt