Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.