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

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

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

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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.

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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

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.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.