War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

All warfare is based on deception.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.