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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

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.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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