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

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

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

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

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.

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

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.