It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win