If we don't end war, war will end us.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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

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

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.