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

All warfare is based on deception.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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.

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.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

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.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare