Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
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.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
