From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.