“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
“Huns should only enter wars in which they can win.”
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“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.”
                                        
                                        Various sources below attribute this statement or similar ones to Marshall 
But a war to prevent a third world war would be the Third World War, and Marshall had reached the conclusion that, "The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it." 
As quoted in This is Our World (1956) by Louis Fisher, p. 91 
Marshall's motto read: "The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it." It was 1947. 
As quoted in  The Story of Indonesia (1959) by Louis Fisher, p. 111 http://books.google.de/books?id=AkIeAAAAMAAJ&q=motto+read 
Frances Perkins recalled his saying, "The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it." 
As quoted in  Freedom's Advocate: a twenty-five year chronicle (1965) by Aaron Levenstein, p. 104 http://books.google.de/books?id=plZIAQAAIAAJ&q=perkins 
“Its purpose is to avoid war, not to provoke it,” he explained to his goddaughter, Rose Page Wilson. The deterrence factor was vital. “The only way to be sure of winning a third world war is to prevent it,” Marshall warned. 
As quoted in  General of the Army. George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman by Ed Cray (1990) p. 645 http://books.google.de/books?id=bGgcYteOQxUC&pg=PA645 
Unsourced variant: The only way to win a war is to prevent it. 
A very similar statement appears in the  US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945), p. 41 http://books.google.de/books?id=mnChmcVKoVsC&pg=PA41&dq=lesson:
:: The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
                                    
Speech, reported in Robert G. Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (2000), p. 126.
“Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war.”
                                        
                                        On the war against terrorism 
Have We Already Been Defeated? (2001) 
Context: Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war. Because the enemy is not human. This is a war against a malicious spirit. Only fools attempt to defeat a spirit with guns and rockets and bombs.
                                    
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities (2013)
“The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it.”
                                        
                                        Address at a Rally in the Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington (October 17, 1956). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library.  Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20210125121539/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes from the  original https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes on January 25, 2021. 
1950s
                                    
                                        
                                         For All We Have and Are http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/forall.html, Stanza 1 (1914). 
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“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.”
                                        
                                        First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897). 
1890s