Thomas Paine: “War never can be the interest of a trading nation, any more than quarrelling can be profitable to a man in business.”

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.