Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.