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

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

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

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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