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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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

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

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.