You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyThere never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715