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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

War is over ... If you want it.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

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 instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

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

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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

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

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

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