Civil war

"Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgement, as the extremest of all vices. ... I live in an age wherein we abound with incredible examples of this vice, through the licentiousness of our civil and intestine wars; And read all ancient Stories, be they never so tragical, you shall find none to equal those, we daily see practised."

"RICHMOND: England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, The father rashly slaughter'd his own son, The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire: All this divided York and Lancaster,"

"The Civil Wars, the common purgative, Which always use to make the nation thrive,"

"I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ."