War Quotes

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.