War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

All warfare is based on deception.

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

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 is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

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