Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

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.

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

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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.

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.