From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

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

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.

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

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.