Arithmetic Quote by Thomas Jefferson

We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted…

— Lynn Steen

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

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

— Benjamin Franklin

Arithmetic has began to totter.

— Gottlob Frege

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

— George R.R. Martin

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

— Plato

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has…

— Ambrose Bierce

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

— Sebastian Junger

“The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.”

— George Lynch

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

— Salvador de Madariaga