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

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

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

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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