CROESUS QUOTE

"No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace , in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons."

CROESUS (6th cent. B.C.). Lydian king. Remark to King Cyrus. In Herodotus (484?-420? B.C.), The Persian Wars, 1.87, tr. George

Rawlinson, 1942