War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.