When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

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