WARS AND WHY THEY START There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it. ADMIRAL ARLEIGH A. BURKE Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here! JOHN PARKER Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. MCGEORGE BUNDY It is far easier to make war than to make peace. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. JOHN F. KENNEDY The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man … it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

SIGMUND FREUD War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. H. L. MENCKEN War is a biological necessity. FRIEDRICH A. J. VON BERNHARDI, German cavalry general War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. SEBASTIAN JUNGER, War War is to man what maternity is to a woman.

From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. BENITO MUSSOLINI Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. JONATHAN SWIFT Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. E. M. FORSTER Copyright © 2013 by James Charlton.