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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.