War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

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

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

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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.