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.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in 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

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

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

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

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

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

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