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.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.