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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

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

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.

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.