Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Will Rogers, (Nov 4 1879-1935), US actor, lecturer, humorist; He is remembered as a Comedy roper in Ziegfield Follies and a witty columnist, 1926-35.