Wanton jests make fools laugh and wise men frown. Fuller.
War disorganises, but it is to re-organise. Emerson.
War has its sweets, Hymen its alarms. La Fontaine.
War has no pity. Schiller.
War is a game which, were their subjects 40 wise, kings should not play at. Cowper.
War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous, / Sweet is the smell of powder. Longfellow.
War its thousands slays, peace its ten thousands. Beilby Porteous.
War ought to be the only study of a prince. Machiavelli.
War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Burke.
War—the trade of barbarians, and the art of 45 bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a single point. Napoleon.