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.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

If we don't end war, war will end us.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

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

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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