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

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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