I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States, never to take active part in the
quarrels of Europe.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1823
I have always given it as my decided opinion, that no nation has a right to intermeddle into
the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever
government they liked best to live under themselves.
—George Washington, 1796
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915
A nation is a historic group of men of recognizable cohesion, held together by a common
enemy.
—Theodore Herzl, 1896
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its
neighbors.
—Dean Inge, 1948
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
Every nation is selfish, and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1944
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick, 1963
***
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
—Georges Clemenceau, 1919
10
Nobody can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.
—Danish proverb
Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1918
10
I believe this is a very poor excuse for the disastrous Versailles Peace he had authored and
enforced—almost single-handedly.
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quarrels of Europe.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1823
I have always given it as my decided opinion, that no nation has a right to intermeddle into
the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever
government they liked best to live under themselves.
—George Washington, 1796
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915
A nation is a historic group of men of recognizable cohesion, held together by a common
enemy.
—Theodore Herzl, 1896
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its
neighbors.
—Dean Inge, 1948
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
Every nation is selfish, and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1944
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
—Stanley Kubrick, 1963
***
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
—Georges Clemenceau, 1919
10
Nobody can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.
—Danish proverb
Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1918
10
I believe this is a very poor excuse for the disastrous Versailles Peace he had authored and
enforced—almost single-handedly.
188
On War and Peace