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1315  C
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” — George Washington
WAR & PEACE, Planning

1316  C
“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.” — George Washington
WAR & PEACE, Planning

1317
“Wars occur because people prepare for conflict, rather than for peace.” — Trygve Lie
WAR & PEACE, Hate

1318
“Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.” — James Monroe
WAR & PEACE, Honor

1319
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” — Thomas Mann
WAR & PEACE, Adversity

1320
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” — Thomas Jefferson
WAR & PEACE, Effectiveness, Sin

1321
“What difference does it make to the dead... whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?” — Mohandas K(aramchand) Gandhi
WAR & PEACE, Government, Death

1322
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” — Marcus Tulius Cicero
WAR & PEACE, Law

1323
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” — Desiderius Erasmus
WAR & PEACE, Law

1324  P
“In peace the sons bury their fathers and in war the fathers bury their sons.” — Francis Bacon
WAR & PEACE, Family & Friends, Death

1325
“You need only a show of war to have peace.” — Titus Livy
WAR & PEACE, Self-Confidence

1326
“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.” — Julius Caesar
WAR & PEACE, Chance

1327
“War is the science of destruction.” — John Stevens Cabot Abbott
WAR & PEACE, Sciences

1328
“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.” — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
WAR & PEACE, Winning

1329
“The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.” — Dwight David Eisenhower
WAR & PEACE, Chance

1330
“There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from a failure of human wisdom.” — Andrew Bonar Law
WAR & PEACE, Wisdom, Chance

1331
“As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, then it will cease to be popular.” — Oscar Wilde
WAR & PEACE, Perception, Sin

1332  P
“Wars are caused by undefended wealth.” — Douglas MacArthur
WAR & PEACE, Wealth, Greed, Envy

1333
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves society.” — Charles Caleb Colton
WAR & PEACE, Principles, Death

1334
“War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.” — Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
WAR & PEACE, Sin, Law

1335  A
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.” — Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant
WAR & PEACE, Government, Accountability

1336
“Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.” — Demosthenes
WAR & PEACE, Fear, Self-Confidence, Doubt

1337
“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.” — Ernest Hemingway
WAR & PEACE, Winning, Failure

1338  H
“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
WAR & PEACE, Wealth, Death

1339
“It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one, since its beginning and end are not under the control of the same man. Anyone, even a coward, can commence a war, but it can be brought to an end only with the consent of the victors.” — Sallust
WAR & PEACE, Winning

1340
“If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.” — George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
WAR & PEACE, Judgment

1341
“We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.” — Francesco Guicciardini
WAR & PEACE, Competition, Attitude

1342  H
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde
WAR & PEACE, Love

WAR & PEACE Cross-References
Winning—84 • Planning—172 • Courage—188, 195 • Prudence—214, 217-218, 226 • Pessimism—279, 283 • Errors—317 • Fear—334-335, 338-339 • Attitude—411 • Perception—621 • Innovation—742 • Honesty—780, 789 • Anger—841 • Hate—853, 857 • Dishonesty—868 • Ego—915 • Principles—955 • Sin—1016 • Business—1045, 1058 • Arts—1078 • Sciences—1097 • Authority—1109, 1111, 1114-1115, 1121-1123 • Leadership—1144 • Accountability—1153-1154 • Competition—1172 • Politics—1248 • Government—1262, 1267, 1272, 1277, 1281 • Law—1288, 1291, 1293-1294, 1310