War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.

I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

War is sweet to those who don’t know it.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

A dead enemy always smells good.

You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. 

There never was a good war or a bad peace.