All thebusiness of war, and indeedall thebusiness of life, isto endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I call 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill'.

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Quoted inJohnWilson Croker The Croker Papers (edited by Bernard Pool,1885), vol.3, ch.28.

The War that will End War.

-Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
  Title of book.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

-White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
  The SecondTree from the Corner,'The SecondTree from the Corner'.

When you're at war you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Skin of OurTeeth, act1.

  We are constantly thinking of the great war†which saved the Union†but it was awar whichdid a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed beforeöa national consciousness.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Memorial DayAddress at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, 31 May.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Speech,Washington,12 May.

My war history has been a simple one. I have just sat in my chair and written all the time.

-Plum
  Letter to Ira Gershwin, 24 Jan.