No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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

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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

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

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.