I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

War is the trade of Kings.

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.