Who said "A war to end all war"?

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

I am writing a thesis and looking for the attribution of the phrase:

WWI was the "war to end all war"....do any of you know exactly where that quote came from? or who gets the attribution?

Thanks a lot.

[dryan]

1. The correct form is...

The war to end all wars. I always thought it was Kipling.

[TiredTexan]

2. President Woodrow Wilson

regarding WWI.

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/presidentialactions/diplomat.cfm

[calico1]

3. President Wilson (regarding WWI) n/t

[UpsideDownFlag]

4. a war to end all wars...something doens't quite ring right.

[JHB]

5. Probably H.G. Wells, amplified by statesmen of the day.

The War That Will End War
(1914)
A non fiction book by H G Wells
http://books.fantasticfiction.co.uk/x0/x3914.htm?authorid=3082

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QUOTATION: I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
ATTRIBUTION: David Lloyd George (1863–1945), British Liberal politician, prime minister. speech, Nov. 11, 1918, House of Commons, London. Hansard, col. 2463.

on the day that the armistice was signed between the allied powers and Germany. The war that will end war had already been used as the title of a novel by H.G. Wells (1914).

http://www.bartleby.com/66/81/36581.html

Of course, Kipling or someone else may have used it earlier. if you're doing a thesis, RESEARCH it.