Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
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.
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.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
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.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
