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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

All warfare is based on deception.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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

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.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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