War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is not an academic exercise.
War is not a thing one wants.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
War is not civilized.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.