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

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

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

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

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.

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.

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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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