There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

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

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

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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.

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

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

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