if you want peace, you must prepare for war
- if you want peace, you must prepare for war
Translating the 4th-cent. AD Roman military writer FLAVIUS VEGETIUS Epitoma Rei Militaris III. (Introd.) qui desideratpacem, praeparet bellum, he who desires peace must prepare for war.
a 1547 E. HALL Chronicle (1548) Edw. IV 209 He forgat the olde adage, saynge in tyme of peace prouyde for warre.
1593 M. SUTCLIFFE Practice of Arms A2v He that desireth peace, he must prepare for warres.
1624 BURTON Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 2) II. iii. The Commonwealth of Venice in their Armory haue this inscription, Happy is that Citty which in time of peace thinkes of warre, a fit Motto for euery mans priuate house.
1885 C. LOWE Prince Bismarck II. x. Lord Beaconsfield had acted on the maxim that ‘if you want peace, you must prepare for war’.
1929 Listener 28 Aug. 278 ‘If you want peace, prepare for peace.’ This is the reverse of the old motto, ‘If you want peace, prepare for war’.
2001 Washington Times 13 July A17 Peace is pro-family, pro-economy and—hear this environmentalists—pro-turtle. Do you want peace? Scipio Africanus, the Roman who defeated Hannibal, put it this way: ‘If you want peace, prepare for war.’
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