A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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.

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.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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.

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

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

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

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