If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Never was anything great achieved without danger