Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
All warfare is based on deception.
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.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.