Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.