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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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.

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

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.