How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

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

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

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Never was anything great achieved without danger