Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

I have loved war too well.

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.

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

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

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

A dead enemy always smells good.

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

I detest war. It spoils armies.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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