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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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

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

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

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.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

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

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

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