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

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 over ... If you want it.

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

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

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

All warfare is based on deception.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.