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

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

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.

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

All warfare is based on deception.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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

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.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

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

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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

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