Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
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Book III, Chapter 2Niccolo Machiavelli
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan
All, all of a piece throughout:
Thy chase had a beast in view;
Thy wars brought nothing about;
Thy lovers were all untrue.
'Tis well an old age is out,
And time to begin a new.John Dryden
Wars begin through greed and vanity and are continued through the insanity of nationalism in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
Billy Collins
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so hopeless.
Harry S. Truman
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