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War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790

I have loved war too well.

—Louis XIV, 1715

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938

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

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

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.

—Louisa May Alcott, 1863

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

—Winston Churchill, 1939

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

—Carl Sandburg, 1936

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

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

—Leon Trotsky

I detest war. It spoils armies.

—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

—Seneca, c. 50

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

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879