It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

War is over ... If you want it.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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 you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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

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

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars