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

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

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

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

—Seneca, c. 50

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

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

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

—Leon Trotsky

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1773

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

—Winston Churchill, 1939

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938

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

—Carl Sandburg, 1936

I have loved war too well.

—Louis XIV, 1715