Agency Quote by Winston Churchill

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all…

— Winston Churchill

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

— Michael Mandelbaum

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

— Woodrow Wilson

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes…

— Darren Shan

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a…

— John Boyd Orr

Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

— Ralph Adams Cram

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good guys beginning…

— Howard Zinn

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

— Mildred Cable

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

— Anthony Swofford

I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts.

— Stanley A. McChrystal