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.

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

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.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.