• "There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war." - Reinhold Niebuhr Tweet
• "I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'" - Tom Hiddleston Tweet
• "The most successful war seldom pays for its losses." - Thomas Jefferson Tweet
• "What is more immoral than war?" - Marquis de Sade Tweet
• "God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice." - John Donne Tweet
• "Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness." - B. H. Liddell Hart Tweet
• "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." - Richard M. Nixon Tweet
• "War is never a solution it is an aggravation." - Benjamin Disraeli Tweet
• "War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can." - Winston Churchill Tweet
• "War is what happens when language fails." - Margaret Atwood Tweet