The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

"War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.