Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

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.

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

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

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

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

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

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.

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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger