War settles nothing†to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

-Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa ne¤  e Miller
  An  Autobiography, ch.10.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. See Butler176:34.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  Letter to  John F Kennedy, 2 Mar.

You worked together for the finest things in the finest years† Later on when a series of disastrous Presidents and Prime Ministers†will have botched up everythingöpeople will say 'Do you remember those daysöhow perfect they were?' The days of you and Jack.

-Onassis,Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne¤  e Bouvier
   To Harold Macmillan, 31  Jan.