Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.