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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

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

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

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.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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