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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in 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.

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

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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.