A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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.

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

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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

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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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