War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

folly and a farce.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.