When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
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 safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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.
