Cry ''havoc!'' and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated, there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.