When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

All warfare is based on deception.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

There was never a bad peace or a good 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.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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