“ All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them. John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Political Figure
“ The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Political Figure
“ In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders! John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Political Figure
“ Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions. John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Political Figure
“ Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson Writer
“ History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion. George Santayana Philosopher
“ France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. Francois Mitterrand Former President Of France
“ I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag. Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President
“ Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. Albert Camus Author
“ The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley Writer