“War settles nothing.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower Related Quotes “Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.”— James A. Garfield “The American army,” said the Prince of Candia, “has the sweet, warm smell of a blond woman.”“You’re very kind,” said Colonel Jack Hamilton.”— Curzio Malaparte “The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.”— Octavio Paz