Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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.

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

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