No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.