The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
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.
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.
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.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
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.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.