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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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

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.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

All warfare is based on deception.