Common Quote by Thucydides

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of…

— Stephen Fry

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

— Asne Seierstad

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war,…

— Bashar al-Assad

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

— Walter Cronkite

Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm…

— K.J. Parker

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

— Sallust

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and…

— Colin Powell

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

— Barbara Tuchman

The cause of war is preparation for war.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to…

— Thucydides

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as…

— Colin Powell