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

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.

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.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.