War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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.

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

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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

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