To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
War is over ... If you want it.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed