There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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

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

I have loved war too well.

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

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

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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. 

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

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