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

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

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

—Erasmus, 1508

I have loved war too well.

—Louis XIV, 1715

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

—Carl Sandburg, 1936

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

—Winston Churchill, 1939

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

—John Donne, 1622

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.

—Louisa May Alcott, 1863

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790

I detest war. It spoils armies.

—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1773

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

—Leon Trotsky

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

A dead enemy always smells good.

—Aulus Vitellius, 69

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

—Seneca, c. 50

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938

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

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879