The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

History is:

+ the lies of the victors

+ the self-delusions of the defeated

+ a raw onion sandwich

+ certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.