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.

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

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

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

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

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.