Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

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.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

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

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.

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.