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.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.