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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

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.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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.

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

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.