You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Source: In Jeanette Rankin: First Lady in Congress, ch. 8 by Hannah Josephson, 1974.
-- Jeannette Rankin, (Jun 11 1880-1973), US suffragist, politician; She was the first woman to serve in Congress, 1917-19; only member to oppose entry into World War I, II.