The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

One believes in the coming of war if one does not sufficiently abhor it.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Blood is the god of war's rich livery.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.