Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
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.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
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.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
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.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.