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 is only the dead who have seen the end of war
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
All warfare is based on deception.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
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.
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
