Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
War is a profane thing.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
War makes strange bedfellows.
War is in the eyes.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.