A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.