War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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.
All warfare is based on deception.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.