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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.