A dead enemy always smells good.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

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

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

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

I have loved war too well.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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

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.