The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
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.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
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.
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.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
