Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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.
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
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.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
