'Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay.

'What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?'

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

All's fair in love and war.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars � all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose � there is no such war in the history of the race.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?