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

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

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

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

A dead enemy always smells good.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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

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.

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

I have loved war too well.