This war is the greatest the world has ever seen.

The Prussian leaders, to whom war is an ideal and a programme, are entitled, if fortune should desert them, to manoeuvre for a "draw"; for they would console themselves with the hope of winning a subsequent match.

Moreover, it is held, I believe, that the misfortunes of war bring out all that is finest in the character of a nation, and that therefore war, with its sweet accompaniments, is a good and a necessary thing.

As the Partian war was the most important of the three, Verus was sent to quell it, and but for the ability of his generalsthe greatest of whom was Avidius Cassiuswould have ruined irretrievably the fortunes of the Empire.

"The world-war has long been a chimera, Mr. Grimm," he remarked at last, "but nownow!

The war against Turkey was in effect a rebellion against the political tutelage of the powers.

England before the war was a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multitude of gentlemen's servants and golf clubs and such like excrescences of the comfort of prosperous people was perpetually increasing; it did not "pay" to build labourers' cottages, and the more expensive sort of automobile had driven the bicycle as a pleasure vehicle off the roads.

The chiefs of their great soldier caste have been more honest than ourselves in the business, with the honesty of men who, knowing that war is murder, have adopted the methods of murderers, whole-heartedly, with all the force of their intellect and genius, not weakened by any fear of public opinion, by any prick of conscience, or by any sentiment of compassion.

The Third North Carolina has never seen active service at the front, and, as the Hispano-American war is practically a closed chapter, it will probably be mustered out of the service without any knowledge of actual warfare.

Just as in the growth of political society the private individual has given up the right of private war to the State, with the result that as States grow stronger and better organized, the war between them becomes fiercer and more destructive, so is it with the concentration of capital.

War itself is unfortunatewe must take the world as it is.

Ten years' civil war in Germany was the fruit of his astute policy, and the only great failure of his administration was that he could not exempt Italy from the dominion of the Emperors of Germany, thus giving rise to the two great political parties of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries,the Guelphs and Ghibellines.

This unfortunate civil war was a signal for a fresh irruption of the Slavi and Hungarians.

The Russo-Japanese War also is a warning how modern wars begin; so also Italy, with her political and military attack on Turkey.

For a man who hopes to escape alive this war is indeed the ninth circle of hell.

Even that is not true which we learned in all the schools and read in all the booksthat every war is an awful misfortune.

The war against the Marcomanni under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, in the second half of this century, was the turning-point.

It brings out in bold relief the fact that in the west the war of the Revolution was an effort on the part of Great Britain to stop the westward growth of the English race in America, and to keep the region beyond the Alleghanies as a region where only savages should dwell.

Civil war was devastating England.

"The post-war will be the one car from which the owner with moderate ideas can obtain the minimum amount of genuine pleasure and satisfaction.

That war, as if it were a family matter, it is our determination to conduct at our own private expense.

The European War was the consequence of a long series of movements, aspirations, agitations.

The war was thenceforth continued only by sallies of the Carthaginians from the Sicilian fortresses and their descents on the Italian coasts.

Those old wars are the most poetic in French history; they were made for pleasure rather than interest.

The war had become the most tragic farce in the world.