"I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country." ― Chief Joseph Topic(s): War More From Chief Joseph "I know that my race must change." "I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed." "General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation." More In War "I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."― Harold Pinter "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."― David Friedman "What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved – a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable."― Iain Duncan Smith