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.

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

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

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

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

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 ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

War is over ... If you want it.