Never was anything great achieved without danger

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

War is over ... If you want it.

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.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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

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.

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

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

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

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.