Voltaire: Selections on war

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

French writers on war and peace

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Voltaire: Annals with no mention of any war undertaken at any time

Voltaire: Armies composed of well disciplined hirelings who determine the fate of nations

Voltaire: Bellicose father or pacific son?

Voltaire: He did not put a sufficient number of his fellow creatures to death

Voltaire: I am the grandson of Penn. That name alone will suffice.

Voltaire: Invoking the gods of war

Voltaire: The laws of robbers and war

Voltaire: Million regimented assassins traverse Europe from one end to the other, to get their bread by regular depredation and murder

Voltaire: Mortals, you’re bound by sacred tie, therefore those cruel arms lay by

Voltaire: Must Europe never cease to be in arms?

Voltaire: One country cannot conquer without making misery for another

Voltaire: Serve a God of peace with war and slaughter?

Voltaire: Sister of Death! inexorable War!

Voltaire: War

Voltaire: Why prefer a war to the happy labors of peace?