No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
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.
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.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
All warfare is based on deception.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
