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I have loved war too well.

—Louis XIV, 1715

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

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

—Erasmus, 1508

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

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

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879

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

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

—Seneca, c. 50

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

I detest war. It spoils armies.

—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820

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

—Leon Trotsky

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

—John Donne, 1622

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

—Carl Sandburg, 1936

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1773