You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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.

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

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

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.