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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

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

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.

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

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.