War and Peace

Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

See that little stream—we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk it—a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs.

Here once the embattled farmers stood,

I think we are in rats’ alley

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’?

War is the trade of kings.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

What is the world, O soldiers?

Toll for the brave—

Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans When our Victory is ultimately won.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

Exterminate all the brutes!

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

The sinews of war, unlimited money.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.