I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879
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War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyI 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