When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.
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.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
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.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
All warfare is based on deception.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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.