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War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938

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

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

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

—John Donne, 1622

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

—Erasmus, 1508

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

—Leon Trotsky

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

I have loved war too well.

—Louis XIV, 1715

I detest war. It spoils armies.

—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820

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

—Carl Sandburg, 1936

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

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879

A dead enemy always smells good.

—Aulus Vitellius, 69

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

—Winston Churchill, 1939