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.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

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.

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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.

All warfare is based on deception.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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