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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

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

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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

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.

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

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

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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.

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

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.