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.

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

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

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

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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.