Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
All warfare is based on deception.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.