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

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

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.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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.

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.