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

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.

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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.

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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