From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. --Margot Asquith
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. --Allan Massie
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. --Aldous Huxley
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. --Otto Von Bismarck
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! --Alexander Blok
I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul. --Henry David Thoreau
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