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My voice is still for war.: Joseph Addison

That alertness and unconcern for matters of common life a campaign or two would infallibly have given him.: Joseph Addison

A steady hand in military affairs is more requisite than in peace, because an error committed in war may prove irremediable.: Francis Bacon

There was a soldier that vaunted before Julius Cæsar of the hurts he had received in his face. Cæsar, knowing him to be but a coward, told him, You were best take heed, next time you run away, how you look back.: Francis Bacon

Victuals and ammunition, And money too, the sinews of the war, Are stored up in the magazine.: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

The surly drums beat terrible afar, With all the dreadful music of the war.: William Broome

But these disputes ended as all such ever have done, and ever will do; in a real weakness of all parties; a momentary shadow and dream of power in some one; and the subjection of all to the yoke of a stranger, who knows to profit of their divisions.: Edmund Burke

In war and love none should be twice deceived.: John Dryden

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble.: John Dryden

Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.: Benjamin Franklin

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.: Edward Gibbon

Those successes are more glorious which bring benefit to the world than such ruinous ones as are dyed in human blood.: Joseph Glanvill

The Greeks, breathing might, advanced in silence, anxious in mind to aid one another.: Buckley’s Homer

In the time of Severus and Antoninus, many, being soldiers, had been converted unto Christ, and notwithstanding continued still in that military course of life.: Richard Hooker

Thus they, Breathing united force with fixed thought, Moved on in silence.: John Milton

Agricola had this excellence in him, so providently to choose his places where to fortify, as not another general then alive.: John Milton

If you miscarry you are lost so far, For there’s no erring twice in love and war.: John Pomfret

Cease to consult, the time for action calls, War, horrid war, approaches to your walls!: Alexander Pope

What further relieves descriptions of battles is the art of introducing pathetic circumstances about the heroes, which raise a different movement in the mind, compassion and pity.: Alexander Pope

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.: Sir Walter Raleigh

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.: Sir Walter Raleigh

Brennus told the Roman embassadors that prevalent arms were as good as any title.: Sir Walter Raleigh

Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front.: William Shakespeare

List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render’d you in music.: William Shakespeare

The harsh and boist’rous tongue of war.: William Shakespeare

Horribly stuff’d with epithets of war.: William Shakespeare

Like, or find fault; do as your pleasures are; Now good or bad, ’tis but the chance of war.: William Shakespeare

Let the gull’d fool the toils of war pursue, Where bleed the many to enrich the few.: William Shenstone

Every warrior may be said to be a soldier of fortune, and the best commanders to have a lottery for their work.: Robert South

The mad game the world so loves to play.: Jonathan Swift

Our grandchildren will see a few rags hung up in Westminster Hall which cost an hundred millions,—whereof they are paying the arrears,—and boast that their grandfathers were rich and great.: Jonathan Swift

Forces came to be used by good princes only upon necessity of providing for their defence.: Sir William Temple

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Authors by sayings about war: Joseph Addison, Francis Bacon, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, William Broome, Edmund Burke, John Dryden, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Gibbon, Joseph Glanvill, Buckley’s Homer, Richard Hooker, John Milton, John Pomfret, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Robert South, Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple.

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