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.

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.

There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.