“The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
To Leon Goldensohn (14 February 1946) from The Nuremberg Interviews (2004) by Leon Goldensohn and Robert Gellately
“The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
As quoted in "Edward Teller Is Dead at 95; Fierce Architect of H-Bomb" http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/obituaries/edward-teller-is-dead-at-95-fierce-architect-of-hbomb.html, New York Times (Sept. 10, 2003) by Walter Sullivan.
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 46 (p. 467)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Letter in Harijan (1938) http://web.archive.org/20021008131454/die_meistersinger.tripod.com/gandhi9.html <br class="br">1930s
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines
Mitsumasa Yonai (1880–1948) Prime Minister of Japan
Quoted in "A-bombs were 'God's gifts' to Japanese regime", Taipei Times (August 7, 2005).
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
A. J. Sylvester's diary entry (24 January 1941), Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45 (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 287
Later life
“War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war”
Jhumpa Lahiri book The Lowland
Source: The Lowland
“The Government can lose the war without you; they cannot win it without you.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Trades Union Congress in Bristol (9 September 1915), quoted in The Times (10 September 1915), p. 9
Minister of Munitions