War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790
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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, 1863Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyWar is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820