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.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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.

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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