Book Quote by Frank-Walter Steinmeier

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to…

— George C. Marshall

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

— Thomas Hardy

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be called at…

— John Keegan

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

— Antony Beevor

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

— Peter Kropotkin

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

— Shigeru Yoshida

War is the usual condition of Europe.

— Peter Kropotkin

“War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown…

— Bill Carter

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

— Ernie Pyle

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

— Michael Morpurgo