Avoided Quote by Robert E. Lee

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in…

— William Westmoreland

It was not war, it was murder.

— Daniel Harvey Hill

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

— Barbara Tuchman

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state…

— Thomas Jefferson

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

— George Bernard Shaw

“If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace,…

— Eden Phillpotts

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather…

— Abraham Lincoln

A war put off is not a war avoided.

— Charlton Heston

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

— Howard Zinn

The cause of war is preparation for war.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

— Bela Kiraly

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

— Norman Mailer