I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715
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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, 1863War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879You 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. 1555I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyAs peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773