War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyWar is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939