A dead enemy always smells good.

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

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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

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

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

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

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.

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

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.