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.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

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

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

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